O VBA é uma linguagem de automação poderosa. Porém, apesar de herdar as características no Visua Basic tradicional, não goza de todas as suas vantagens. Muitas coisas acabam precisando ser feitas na não.
O código abaixo permite listas as impressoras listas no computador, fazendo a função da coleção Printers existente no VB tradicional:
Option Explicit Const PRINTER_ENUM_CONNECTIONS = &H4 Const PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL = &H2 Private Declare Function EnumPrinters Lib "winspool.drv" Alias "EnumPrintersA" _ (ByVal flags As Long, ByVal name As String, ByVal Level As Long, _ pPrinterEnum As Long, ByVal cdBuf As Long, pcbNeeded As Long, _ pcReturned As Long) As Long Private Declare Function PtrToStr Lib "kernel32" Alias "lstrcpyA" _ (ByVal RetVal As String, ByVal Ptr As Long) As Long Private Declare Function StrLen Lib "kernel32" Alias "lstrlenA" _ (ByVal Ptr As Long) As Long Public Function ListPrinters() As Variant Dim bSuccess As Boolean Dim iBufferRequired As Long Dim iBufferSize As Long Dim iBuffer() As Long Dim iEntries As Long Dim iIndex As Long Dim strPrinterName As String Dim iDummy As Long Dim iDriverBuffer() As Long Dim StrPrinters() As String iBufferSize = 3072 ReDim iBuffer((iBufferSize \ 4) - 1) As Long 'A função EnumPrinters retornará falso casa a fila de impressão estiver muito cheia bSuccess = EnumPrinters(PRINTER_ENUM_CONNECTIONS Or _ PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL, vbNullString, _ 1, iBuffer(0), iBufferSize, iBufferRequired, iEntries) If Not bSuccess Then If iBufferRequired > iBufferSize Then iBufferSize = iBufferRequired Debug.Print "iBuffer too small. Trying again with "; _ iBufferSize & " bytes." ReDim iBuffer(iBufferSize \ 4) As Long End If 'Tentar chamar a função novamente bSuccess = EnumPrinters(PRINTER_ENUM_CONNECTIONS Or _ PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL, vbNullString, _ 1, iBuffer(0), iBufferSize, iBufferRequired, iEntries) End If If Not bSuccess Then 'Mostra mensagem em caso de erro na chamada da EnumPrinters MsgBox "Error enumerating printers." Exit Function Else 'Caso EnumPrinters retorne True, preenche o array com as impressoras ReDim StrPrinters(iEntries - 1) For iIndex = 0 To iEntries - 1 'Pega o nome da impressora strPrinterName = Space$(StrLen(iBuffer(iIndex * 4 + 2))) iDummy = PtrToStr(strPrinterName, iBuffer(iIndex * 4 + 2)) StrPrinters(iIndex) = strPrinterName Next iIndex End If ListPrinters = StrPrinters End Function Public Function IsBounded(vArray As Variant) As Boolean 'Se a variável passada é um array, retorna True, do contrário, False On Error Resume Next IsBounded = IsNumeric(UBound(vArray)) End Function |
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Autor do código: Astrid Zeelenberg
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AvailablePrinters.htm
Adaptado por Tomás Vásquez