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GXPD 42 - Setting GX Paper Types (25-Oct-96)
Q
From my application, I need to create a new papertype object on the fly and set the
format object for a specific page to use that papertype. I see that there is
a GXGetFormatPaperType call but no GXSetFormatPaperType call. Since each page
that my user creates could need its own papertype, I need some way to set
up the paper type and then set the page size for each page to that new
paper type. How do I do this?
A
You are correct: there is no GX API that lets you set the paper type
format. However, you can achieve this functionality by following these steps:
- Call GXNewPaperType to set up the new paper type that your user has created on the fly.
- Call GXGetFormatPaperType to get the currently set paper type.
- Call GXCopyPaperType to place the new paper type in instead of the old paper type.
- Call GXChangedFormat to let GX know that the format has changed.
Sorry this isn't better documented!
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