[Libaps-general] Re: KPrinter.*

[Waldo B. <ba...@kd...>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> naggin' you again :). 

No problem, at least someone who cares what I do :-)

> Are you going to put the printer config stuff in
> KPrinter class, too? 

Yes, well, maybe :-) The other option is to have
"KPrinter" and have let's say  "KPrinterConfig" which inherits "KPrinter". 
And then "KPrinter" just provides read-access to the printer attributes and 
with KPrinterConfig you can change them as well. The latter would only be 
needed by the yet to be made "configure printer" dialog.

> Seems like no piece of sysAPS should stay i the
> KPrinter API - so all sysAPS related things will be accessed via KPrinter
> methods, right? 

Yes. That's the idea.

> I have no idea how you are going to implement all your
> things from your RFC...putting all into the KPrinter class? I wanna help,
> but i dont know how :)....

Well, I don't have a clear idea about how to do everything yet. It's 
basically just playing around and then see how things fit in.

Just some random thoughts:

1) If possible, I would like to load libaps and all printer stuff on demand 
only. I am not sure if that is feasible or whether that makes actual sense, 
but on first sight it makes sense I guess. Anyway, that means that the API 
should not contain direct references to libaps. No idea if this turns out to 
be a silly idea.

2) Does libaps report paper-sizes to you? I get error-code 6. I have added 
code to default to a default list of paper-size in this case, but would like 
to use the paper-sizes reported by libaps. Any thoughts on this? Or  am I 
supposed to configure the paper-sizes first with the yet-non-existing printer 
configuration dialog? :-] 

Cheers,
Waldo
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