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Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:15:21 +0100
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Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote:
Hi all! Is there anything more I should do to get this patch accepted?
When it comes to the issue about calling default-printer-name each time
we print something, I can see several options:

o Leave as is (my favorite).
o Only call default-printer-name on start-up.
o Make the use of the above two ways run-time configurable.
o Add some caching functionality to default-printer-name, and trigger
  the "cache update" on WM_SETTINGCHANGE.

I favour the first option too. Worrying about a few milliseconds overhead for a system call on an operation like printing, that takes orders of magnitude longer, is not worth it IMHO. Caching would make the code overly complicated and difficult to maintain.








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