Printjob System Parameter...

Question

Hi all,
I am calling a report from a form using run_product. I want to print it directly but want the printer dialog box should appear before printing. Tht can be done assigning parameter 'DESTYPE'='PRINTER' and 'PRINTJOB'='YES' but this is not working in my case. wht can be the problem?
Namrata

Answer 1

At 10g not 9i using a bean area on my canvas implementing the following class ...
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.JobAttributes;
import java.awt.PrintJob;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.io.*;
import oracle.forms.ui.VBean;
public class Select_Printer extends VBean {
public Select_Printer()
     super();
public String getPrinterName()
String PrinterName=null;
          JobAttributes jobAttributes;
          try{
               jobAttributes = new JobAttributes();
               jobAttributes.setDialog(JobAttributes.DialogType.NATIVE);
               Frame dummyFrame = new Frame();
               PrintJob pJobDialog = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getPrintJob(
               dummyFrame, "Printtest", jobAttributes, null);
               PrinterName = jobAttributes.getPrinter();
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println("Printer error!");
          return PrinterName;
public static void main(String[] args)
Select_Printer select_Printer = new Select_Printer();
System.out.println(select_Printer.getPrinterName() );
}