Karl-Heinz,
I am sorry if I have offended you. That was never my intention.
What I tried to say was that we should not spend too much time to create exactly the same dialog that VFP has, when there is already a built-in dialog in Windows that you can call from C# which also has more functionality (like access to the properties dialog).
By using the built-in dialog we will also "automatically" get new features when they arrive with updates of the OS.
And I do not think that FoxPro has created a complete new dialog. I am pretty sure that the underlying code uses the
PrintDlgA () function in the windows API and all they have done is to pass in PRINTDLGA structure that contains a a handle to a custom resource.
The rest is driven by the normal PrintDlgA() function.
You can see that resource if you open VFP9ENU.DLL in Visual Studio (with Open / File) and then expand the Dialog node in the resource viewer. The resource with number 1559 is the one that contains the dialog.
As you can see in the image below they have moved the properties button outside of the visual area of the dialog, as well as the choices for paper size and source and orientation.
![printdlg.png](/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=2574&sid=1468d7ad25ec49fc7b017f80c1a1c8e4)
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I think if we want to do something similar we should use the standard print dialog and use a similar trick to send in a different template.
Robert