Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Since Internet Explorer is a part of Microsoft Windows 95 (OSR 2 and OSR 2.1), 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or Windows Vista you may want to add a link to your home page that will start Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). Here’s the code to do so:

uses
Windows, {$ifdef ver90} OLEAuto {$else} ComObj {$endif};
…
procedure [...]

This is the harder way to print text in Delphi If you want to do it the easier way check out tip 4.1. Well, if for some reasons you may want to print using the Windows API here’s the code:
Code 1:

uses
Printers, WinSpool;
…
var
aDriver, aPort, aPrinterName: array[0..255] of Char; { aDriver and [...]