Print VI at completion, with a print dialog box??

I'm trying to print a VI at completion, and want the user to be able to choose which printer they want to print to. Is there a way I can open the print dialog box from Labview??? (I'm relatively inexperienced with the program) Thank you!

Not that I know of directly from LabVIEW. You could write a C code
wrapper DLL that calls COMMDLG.DLL (the windows common dialog API
calls) to give you the print dialog, or could write write an MFC DLL
that uses a CPrintDialog.
If you use MFC, then you will be writing C++ and will have to make
sure to watch out for "decorated" names by by using the extern "C"{ }
declaration around your function and explicitly declaring your
function in your .def file
Douglas De Clue
LabVIEW developer
[email protected]
"Liz F." wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I'm trying to print a VI at completion, and want the user to be able
> to choose which printer they want to print to. Is there a way I can
> open
the print dialog box from Labview??? (I'm relatively
> inexperienced with the program) Thank you!

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