RSILVERMAN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (Richard Silverman) (05/19/89)
Heather, I'm a little confused by your posting. You say, >> Sometimes when the user clicks on the AppleTalk IW icon in the >> chooser, both the "p printer spooler" and "p printer" come up in the >> selection box. I've confirmed over and over that the printer is not >> accessible except through the spooler. But if the printer name comes up in the Chooser device list, then it *is* accessible. Did you mean that you've often seen it be inaccessible, too? To answer your first question, the Chooser in System 6.0 stores the name of the last chosen printer in 'STR ' resource -16096 in the System resource file. (Note that number may be different if your Chooser DA's number has been changed from the standard one; refer to Inside Macintosh I, chapter on the Resource Manager: "owned resources"). However, I don't think this will help you. When you select a network resource in the Chooser, it does an NBP lookup to find all devices of the given type out there. I have seen the following effect, though: suppose you have a system disk on one network, and last selected a LaserWriter named "Charlie". Then, you take the disk to another network, where there is no Charlie, just a "Lucy". You bring up the Chooser, see Lucy in the device list, and happily close the Chooser. Then, when you try to print, it fails trying to find LaserWriter Charlie. The reason is that you did not actually *select* Lucy (i.e. click on it, so that it is highlighted); so the Mac attempted to connect to the last chosen printer -- Charlie. good luck, Richard Silverman arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Computing Center bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan Wesleyan University CIS: [72727,453] Middletown, CT 06457