INFO: DeviceCapabilities(DC_BINNAMES) Data Format

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1

SUMMARY

When an application calls the DeviceCapabilities() API with the nIndex parameter set to DC_BINNAMES, 24 bytes are required for each bin name.

DeviceCapabilities() returns the name of each bin as a null-terminated string in a character array. Each bin-name entry requires 24 bytes and begins on the [(n-1) * 24] byte of the array.

The following code demonstrates how to allocate a block of memory, retrieve the bin names, and walk through the array of bin names. The code assumes that GetProcAddress() has been used to retrieve a long pointer to the DeviceCapabilities() in the printer driver and that the pointer was stored in the lpfnDevCap variable:

   if ((dwDMSize = (*lpfnDevCap)(lpszDevice, lpszPort, DC_BINNAMES,

                                 0L, lpDevMode))
        && (dwDMSize != (DWORD)(-1)))

   {

      if (hMem = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, (WORD)dwDMSize * 24))
      {
         lpMem = (LPINT)GlobalLock(hMem);
         nBins = (WORD)(*lpfnDevCap)(lpszDevice, lpszPort,
                                     DC_BINNAMES, lpMem, lpDevMode);
         for (lpBins = lpMem, i = 0; i < nBins; i++, lpBins += 24)
         {
            // lpBins points to the null-terminated bin name.
         }
         GlobalUnlock(hMem);
         GlobalFree(hMem);
      }

   } 

Additional query words: 3.10

Keywords : kbDSupport kbSDKWin16
Version : WINDOWS:3.1
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo