Re: container/component printing?

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Gustavo,

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:13, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   And this would be for gnome 2.2 or 2.4?

	When someone wants it and does the work :-)

>   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.

	Ok - if you are embedding as a control - the right way to do it is to
merge a Print menu item into the container, and take full control of the
printing process.

>   By the way, I wonder how gnumeric/guppi manage printing through
> CORBA...

	Currently they don't - since that stuff was un-supported, and was
(horribly) mis-used by nautilus, I axed it all. Essentially the problems
of embedding a 'View' are very different to embedding a Control, pwrt:

	a) Model / View
	b) Sizing logic - must a View is a pure slave
	c) Uniform scaling
	d) WYSIWYG view & synchronized zoom

	etc. etc.

	We had some interfaces for this; but we axed them - if you're
interested in taking this up; there's plenty of scope for working on it.
I'd like to see it working well outside libbonoboui before merging it
though :-)

	Regards,

		Michael.

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