Using the Printers Unit in Delphi

Question

I want to access the Printers Unit in Delphi XE7. I am not able to do this, because „the Printers Unit cannot be resolved“ as shown on this image:

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As a beginner in Delphi, I don’t know what to do. Don’t judge me. Is there a way of adding a reference or something? Thank you.

The red squiggly line is from error insight, a functionality that doesn't work most of the time. Just deactivate this feature... — whosrdaddy, Apr 07 '15 at 15:48

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 18 '15 at 03:06

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In Delphi XE2, RTL/VCL/FMX unit names were updated with Unit Scope Names. So you have to either:

use fully qualified unit names in your uses clause, like Vcl.Printers.
go to Project Options -> Delphi Compiler -> Unit scope names and make sure Vcl is listed, then you can use just Printers in your uses clause.

A new Vcl project has the following default Unit Scope Names:

Winapi;System.Win;Data.Win;Datasnap.Win;Web.Win;Soap.Win;Xml.Win;Bde;System;Xml;Data;Datasnap;Web;Soap;Vcl;Vcl.Imaging;Vcl.Touch;Vcl.Samples;Vcl.Shell`

edited Apr 18 '15 at 03:06

Remy Lebeau

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answered Apr 07 '15 at 09:31

Dalija Prasnikar

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Thank you very much! Worked like a charm! – Luca Tescari Apr 07 '15 at 09:37
I kinda hate this whole Namespace idea in Delphi, i like it the old school way. – Apr 07 '15 at 12:52
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@user1803300 Since the introduction of Firemonkey, namespaces were kinda inevitable. – Jerry Dodge Apr 07 '15 at 15:06

Using the Printers Unit in Delphi

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