Re: printing

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Ole Laursen wrote:

> Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > I have been trying to get into libgnomeprintmm and libgnomeprintuimm,
> > and I have run into precious little in the way of documentation.  Can
> > any of you point me towards the source of an application that
> > utilitzes these libraries, or perhaps point me towards some API
> > documentation that contains a bit more than member function names and
> > formal parameter data types?
> >    
>
> Hm, standard GNOME applications come to mind, e.g. gedit, Gnumeric,
> perhaps Evolution. It should be easy to find the sources for these
> with Google. For more help about the API, I think your best bet is the
> gnome-devel list or people on IRC.
>
>  
I am referring to the C++ wrapped versions, namely libgnomeprintmm and 
libgnomeprintuimm.  Is it likely that the applications to which you 
referred will have used those?  In regard to the gnome-devel mailing 
list:  who wrote the C++ wrappers?  I naturally assumed that the gtkmm 
crowd did that.  Am I mistaken? 

My searches through the header files reveal some strange things:  for 
instance, the run method for the printer dialog (in the 
libgnomeprintuimm library) not only returns nothing (even though it has 
a return value of "int") it is simply commented out in the class 
definition header.  When I check the return value for this method, it 
gives me the same return value for all three possible buttons that can 
be pushed in the dialog.  I can find nothing that indicates which one 
was pushed when the run method exits.

I guess I'm trying to find out whether these libraries are even viable, 
and whether or not I'm going to have to fall back to the standard gnome 
printing libraries (for which I can find scant information as well).  I 
don't mind searching for these things, I am simply in a quandry as to 
where to start.

Thanks,

Bob

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