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Wide characters in a printer name causes crash

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Topic: Wide characters in a printer name causes crash

Posted By: Xan
Subject: Wide characters in a printer name causes crash
Date Posted: 24 Jan 13 at 8:06PM

Hello,

I'm developing a browser plugin that prints PDFs silently in the background. Everything is working great, except for one minor issue: whenever the printer name contains anything other than ASCII, my plugin crashes completely when issuing a DPLPrintDocument command. And I'm just using the normal DPLGetDefaultPrinterName(InstanceID) as the printer's name. (I've also tried fetching the default printer myself into a string and passing that, with the same result.

I think this is unlikely to come up in the real world, but it does seem like a problem. Has anybody else seen this?

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 24 Jan 13 at 8:48PM

Hi Xan!

It works like designed i fear.
Which version you're using?
If you look into the reference you can see that the activex-version returns with a string,
delphi- and dll-version with a widestring.
I think you should try the dll-version (widestring result)?

Cheers and welcome here, Ingo