How To Print Contents of the Web Browser Control from Visual FoxPro (265126)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q265126

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Web Browser control does not offer a Print method. This article demonstrates how to print the contents of the control from Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

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Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Create a new form, named frmWeb in Visual FoxPro.
  2. Add a command button, named cmdPrint, and an OLEControl, named oleWeb to the frmWeb form.
  3. Set the OLEControl to use the Microsoft Web Browser control.
  4. Add the following code to the frmWeb.Init method:
    ThisForm.oleWeb.Navigate("http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/")
  5. Add the following code to the oleWeb.Refresh method:
    NODEFAULT   && Avoids "Unspecified error" on form startup
  6. Add the following code to the cmdPrint.Click method: 
    #DEFINE OLECMDID_PRINT 6
#DEFINE OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER 1
#DEFINE OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER 2
ThisForm.oleWeb.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, 0, 0)
  7. Run the form. After the page loads, click the cmdPrint button, and the page prints to the default printer.

REFERENCES

For additional information about printing with the Microsoft Web Browser control, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

188271 How To Print Contents of the Web Browser Control From VB

For more information about the Web Browser control, refer to the following:

MSDN Library, topic: "InternetExplorer object"

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/1/2004
Keywords:kbCtrl kbhowto KB265126
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