Re: container/component printing?

["Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:57, Chema Celorio wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:49, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > Hi Gustavo,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 11:52, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > >   I am trying to add a printing interface to my Bonobo::Control.
> > > However, I have two problems:
> > >
> > > 	1. The header file gnome-print-bonobo.h from libbonobo is not
> > > installed. Oh, well, I'm getting used to this sort of thing; I can work
> > > around it;
> > 
> > 	Ah - this is a product of people fleeing when Bonobo arrives ;-) quite
> > possibly we need to move the printing interface to libbonoboui, although
> > it's clearly not a GUI interface.
> 
> Michael, I know this library split is getting crazy, but what are your
> thoughts about having something like libbonoboprint? It could live
> inside the libgnomeprint module, just that it would be a different
> library that people link to, install it's own pkgconfig file, etc.
>  
> > > 	2. Apparently, controls wishing to implement a Bonobo::Print interface
> > > are required to print themselves to a gnome print meta stream.
> > > Unfortunately, the gnome-print-meta.h header file is also not installed.
> > > So, how do I create a meta print context?
> >
> > 	Hard to say; the print-meta information was never such an elegant piece
> > of code - I'd point the finger at Chema; Chema ?
> 
> We should split gnome-print-meta.h into gnome-print-meta.h and
> gnome-print-meta-private.h, and install gnome-print-meta.h. This is the
> easy fix once '1.' is fixed.

  And this would be for gnome 2.2 or 2.4?
  At moment, in my app, I'm printing entirely through the component (in
python!;). In spite of it working quite well, it isn't very elegant. And
in the future I might want to embed my component in other applications,
such as gnumeric.
  By the way, I wonder how gnumeric/guppi manage printing through
CORBA...

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Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro
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