Displaying the Print Dialog Box

This topic describes sample code that displays a Print dialog box so a user can select options for printing a document. The sample code first initializes a PRINTDLG structure, and then calls the PrintDlg function to display the dialog box.

This example sets the PD_RETURNDC flag in the Flags member of the PRINTDLG structure. This causes PrintDlg to return a device context handle for the selected printer in the hDC member. You can use the handle to render output on the printer.

On input, the sample code sets the hDevMode and hDevNames members to NULL. If the function returns TRUE, these members return handles to DEVMODE and DEVNAMES structures containing the user's input and information about the printer. You can use this information to prepare the output to be sent to the selected printer.

PRINTDLG pd;
HWND hwnd;

// Initialize PRINTDLG
ZeroMemory(&pd, sizeof(PRINTDLG));

pd.lStructSize = sizeof(PRINTDLG);
pd.hwndOwner = hwnd;
pd.hDevMode = NULL; // Don't forget to free or store hDevMode.
pd.hDevNames = NULL; // Don't forget to free or store hDevNames.
pd.Flags = PD_USEDEVMODECOPIESANDCOLLATE | PD_RETURNDC;
pd.nCopies = 1;
pd.nFromPage = 0xFFFF;

pd.nToPage = 0xFFFF;

pd.nMinPage = 1;

pd.nMaxPage = 0xFFFF;

if (PrintDlg(&pd)==TRUE) {

// GDI calls to render output.

// Delete DC when done.
DeleteDC(pd.hDC);
}

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