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#3066 Printer properties option disabled

minor bug
pending-invalid
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2017-03-25
2008-04-23
nick
No

version: 4.3pre13 using Java 1.5.0_12
on Windows XP

The printer properties dialog box is disabled. I can select and print to any of the network printers here, but I can't adjust any properties.
4 hardware networked printers (HP, Xerox, ...)
2 soft local printers (Primo PDF, MS XPS)

Selecting other printers from the list does not change the button status.

I saw a similar bug listed from 2002 as a "Java" bug. If this is still the case - please suggest a program I might try to test & verify that is true.

thanks.

Discussion

  • Alan Ezust

    Alan Ezust - 2009-12-30

    I can confirm this also, on Java 1.6.0_16 and Jedit 4.4pre1.
    I am not sure how to resolve this yet, since I am not familiar with the printing API.

     
  • Dale Anson

    Dale Anson - 2016-08-09
    • assigned_to: Dale Anson
    • Group: --> minor bug
     
  • Dale Anson

    Dale Anson - 2016-08-09

    I realize this is an old bug, but I wonder if the original submitter could list what printer properties are needed? I'm in the middle of reworking/updating the jEdit printing code, and am adding support for quite a few printer properties that the default, out-of-the-box printer dialog doesn't support.

    I've done some research into this, and it's definitely a Sun/Oracle bug. From the Sun source code:

    // REMIND: may want to notify the user why we're
    //         disabling the button                  
    

    It's disabled because no one bothered to create a dialog for the button to show.

     
  • Robert Schwenn

    Robert Schwenn - 2017-03-25
    • status: open --> pending-invalid
     
  • Robert Schwenn

    Robert Schwenn - 2017-03-25

    I think, this is irrelevant now, since jEdit 5.4.0 has it's own print dialog, isn't it?

     

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