XCLN: How to Print an Exchange Form with Graphics

• Microsoft Exchange Windows 3.x client version 4.0
• Microsoft Exchange Windows 95 client version 4.0
• Microsoft Exchange Windows NT client version 4.0

SUMMARY

When you print a form in the Microsoft Exchange client, you only print a "textized" copy of the form; the printout does not have the graphical look of the form. This is by product design. However, a Microsoft Exchange Form can be extended very easily in Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit to include an option button or another control to allow you to print the graphical form.

MORE INFORMATION

To extend a Microsoft Exchange Form so that you can print a graphical view of the form:

1. Create a form in Electronic Form Designer (EFD) and install the form, then open the VBP file in Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit. (For more information on extending a form see Chapter 9 of the "Application Designer's Guide.")

2. Add a button control to your form and add the following code to this button control:

         Me.PrintForm
   

   This allows the user to click this button to print the graphical form.

3. Now you need to re-compile the code in Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit, and then install the form using the Forms Manager in the Microsoft Exchange client.

NOTE: When you print the form by clicking Print on button on the toolbar of the message, or by clicking Print on the File menu, you will still get a textized version of the form. Only the button you just created allows you to print the graphical form.