XPRINT GET TRAYS statement  

Purpose

Retrieve a list of supported paper trays.

Syntax

XPRINT GET TRAYS TO trays$

Remarks

XPRINT GET TRAYS retrieves a string which contains a list of all of the paper trays supported by the attached host printer.  This string is assigned to the string variable specified by trays$.

The string contains a comma-delimited list of traytype, trayname... repeated as many times as necessary.  For example:

"1,Upper,2,Lower,5,Envelope"

You can use PARSECOUNT to determine the number of delimited fields in the string, and PARSE$() to easily extract the tray numbers and names.  The following equates are predefined in the compiler, and represent the most common trays:

%DMBIN_UPPER         = 1
%DMBIN_LOWER         = 2
%DMBIN_MIDDLE        = 3
%DMBIN_MANUAL        = 4
%DMBIN_ENVELOPE      = 5
%DMBIN_ENVMANUAL     = 6
%DMBIN_AUTO          = 7
%DMBIN_TRACTOR       = 8
%DMBIN_SMALLFMT      = 9
%DMBIN_LARGEFMT      = 10
%DMBIN_LARGECAPACITY = 11
%DMBIN_CASSETTE      = 14
%DMBIN_FORMSOURCE    = 15

Other paper style codes may be defined by Windows or printer suppliers. If executed without a host printer attached, error 57 is generated.

See also

XPRINT ATTACH, XPRINT GET TRAY, XPRINT SET TRAY