Re: printing

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> <snip>
>
> > As you can see, the function prototype specifies a return value, but the 
> > function returns nothing.  Because the method wrapper is commented out, 
> > and since the class is derived from Gtk::Dialog I made the assumption 
> > that the run method would return something meaningful, but as I said in 
> > my previous message, it does not seem to do that.
> >    
>
> Are you talking about the result of a test, or just what you thought the
> source code did?
>  
I was talking about my own test case wherein I opened the dialog in 
order to use the resulting configuration in creationn of the print job 
in the first place.  It was there that I was checking the return value 
of the run method.  In the example code that accompanied 
libgnomeprintuimm, the return value of the run method was ignored.  As a 
matter of fact, the configuration information that was available from 
the dialog was not utilized by the example program at all.  The example 
merely showed how to instantiate and display the print dialog (and it 
used the run method, btw).

> > <snip>
> >    
> >
> > Is there any forecast about when the new cairo-based printing API will 
> > arrive?
> >    
>
> Maybe in GTK+ 2.10, which should be stable within 6 months:
> http://www.gtk.org/plan/2.10/
>
> People are working on it (see gtk-devel-list), and it looks like they
> will succeed. It's a difficult job because it needs to be suitable for
> Windows and Mac as well as Linux.
>  
That timing will work out well for me.  My printing needs are somewhat 
different from those of say, an editor or other document based 
application; therefore, programs using bonobo and so forth don't shed 
light on the part of the printing library that I needed... but it seems 
that I may not find what I'm used to (the windoz methodology) anyway.

Thanks very much for the information!

Bob Caryl

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