Problem with Printer Status Box

[ManishaSantosh]

Dear All ,

A strange problem related to Printer Status Box. While printing a page , printer status box showing last two message strings wrong.

The dialog box shows ,

Printing

Test

on the

Samsung CLP-320 series

.................

..................

These last two lines are wrong. They should be

On uSB Port 001

Page 1


I am using Unicode.


PL help at earliest.

Thanking you ,

Manisha

[VictorN]

What is "Printer Status Box"?
How do you display it?

[ManishaSantosh]

While printing a document , after selecting file and printer , MFC displays this dialog box.
It just displays information of processing pages. This is displayed after OnPreparePrinting
and before OnPrint.

[ManishaSantosh]

Dear Victor ,

After OnPreparePrinting , to show Printing Status Dialog box, MFC is using variable nFormatID.

The code is nFormatID = AFX_IDS_PRINTONPORT . The ID of AFX_IDS_PRINTONPORT is 61504.

and one of my strings in string table is also having ID 61504.

Naturally , instead of port info , the dialog is displaying my string.

Now I dont know what to do ? I reinstalled the printer , didn't help.

[VictorN]

After OnPreparePrinting , to show Printing Status Dialog box, MFC is using variable nFormatID.
The code is nFormatID = AFX_IDS_PRINTONPORT . The ID of AFX_IDS_PRINTONPORT is 61504.

and one of my strings in string table is also having ID 61504.

It is not good...
MSDN recommended to use the range 1 -> 0x7FFF for the string resources with IDS_, IDP_ prefix to avoid the conflicts with system resource IDs

Now I dont know what to do ?

Open your resource.h file and manually chang the ID for your string from 61504 to something < 32767.
Then do Rebuild All

[ManishaSantosh]

Thankx a lot victor ,

I will try and remember it definately .. I will avoid IDS Tag ..

[ManishaSantosh]

Problem solved .. Conflict removed ..

But when I created String Table , I just gave ID ..

I used IDS_ tag but the value was generated by MFC ..

Then why was the conflict ?

I will start my strings with ID suggested by you in future.