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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Print dialog and Qt source code
From:       Stephan Goetter <sg17 () irz301 ! inf ! tu-dresden ! de>
Date:       1999-06-05 11:02:48
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Am Sam, 05 Jun 1999 schrieb Espen Sand:
> Okay, I have come to a point where I need a print dialog. Has anyone
> made (or planned) something that could be called a standard KDE print 
> dialog or should one use the Qt dialog?
> 
> My problem (with a hex editor) is that I need to specify a range or 
> selected area to print. No problem, I can make that myself, but I 
> would very much like to have the printcap parsing that is done in 
> the Qt print dialog code so that the user dont have to specify 
> (hopefully!) the printer name by typing it somewhere (I want a 
> list to pick from).
> 
> I assume I can't grab the printcap parsing code from the Qt source code
> (or can I? I want this to work for both Qt 1.4x and 2.0 based KDE) so has
> anyone done the same already or are there some code/packages I can have 
> a look at? Is it worthwhile to examine the GNOME source? 

Christoph Neerfeld wrote some code for parsing printcap in his klpq.
Perhaps this code can go in the Libs (kdecore ?)?
I also use it in my KPrinterDialog (http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~sg17/kde/kprinter.html),
and there is also some code, for filling your list.

Bye,
Stephan

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