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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Print error report (RFC)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-31 20:44:37
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On Saturday 31 March 2001 02:40, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> So my idea was to simply to tell the application something went wrong using
> "bool failed()", and then the application can use "QString failReason()" to
> have more informations. The error message itself is determined in the
> plugin. So is it really necessary to report some kind of enum value (error
> code) as: - the error will be reported using KNotify anyway
>     - as the error occured in the plugin, the application won't be able to
> correct it itself. The error will be "structural" (like missing program,
> network error, daemon crash, wrong printer configuration, printer unknown).

If there is no recovery possible then a single boolean will suffice I guess. 
Or you might want to keep the possibility open and use an int and only define 
"PRINT_OK = 0, PRINT_FATAL_ERROR = 1"

Cheers,
Waldo
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