First of all, thank you for all the help you have provided in the past, especially Bill!
My situation: I have written an application that needs to access the Crystal Reports (version 8.5) API to print documents based on parameters issued by command line. One of my customer's customers wants to use a collation function on their printer when printing multiple copies. Unfortunately, I need to pass in some values through the API using some DEVMODE settings. When I use Perl to modify the printer settings, NOTHING happens at print time and the default settings in the Crystal Report are always used to print. I seem unable to use the specific method provided to send alternate printer settings properly. I have no experience with C++, nor DLL creation. But my client has C++ programmers on staff. I need to provide him with a set of documentation for how to create a DLL that I can interface with my Perl app to handle this situation. What I don't know is how to send to them the Object reference for my current Crystal Report document so they can access the Crystal API at a lower level than I can with Perl. Passing the rest of the parameters back and forth should be simple enough, but this is uncharted water for me. Any pointers? Websites? Tutorials I can read would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Adam Frielink _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
