Re: GSCUPS and GNUstep Printing

[Chad Hardin]

On Jun 11, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Jun 11, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Chad Hardin wrote:
> > > Probably these should go in a separate subdirectory under Source.
> > Ok, under GSCUPS, I suppose?
> Perhaps 'Printing' or something generic that describes what the files 
> do.

Of course. :-)

> > 	//find out what we are actually going to allocate, is it a 
> > GSLPRPrinter or a GSCUPSPrinter (maybe even a GSWindowsPrinter?)
> >         userDefault = //whatever the default is
> >
> >         if( [userDefault isEqualToString: @"GSCUPS"])
> >         {
> >                 return [GSCUPSPrinter alloc];
> >         }
> >
> >         if( [userDefault isEqualToString: @"GSLPR"])
> >         {
> >                 return [GSCUPSLPR alloc];
> >         }
> Sure, something like that is fine, although both NSPrinInfo and 
> NSPrintPanel are shared, so you probably only need to change the 
> shared factory method, plus you need to check if you can even use 
> GSCupsPrinter even if the default requests it. Also you should put 
> this in allocWithZone: since alloc just calls that.

Roger that.  I am making a new VMware Machine right now so I can work 
with GNUstep CVS to do this stuff.  You see, usually I work with the 
packaging of GNUstep releases....


Chad
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