[Gambas-user] Printer object needs tray selection support

Rob sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...
Wed Sep 15 17:50:05 CEST 2004


I've been working on a pretty big app for one of my clients, and 
just ran into the situation where some documents need to go to 
one tray in a laser printer, and others to another tray.  There 
doesn't seem to be any way to do this in gambas, not even in the 
printer selection dialog (which I had thought was the standard 
Qt one but it's not.)  

I can get around it by setting Printer.file to go to a postscript 
file in /tmp, and shelling out to lpr -o media=Upper (for 
example) to print it, but I figured I would mention this 
esoteric but important detail.  I'm sure most gambas developers 
don't have any printers with more than one tray handy so if need 
be I will try to figure out how to add this to gb.qt in my spare 
time.

Rob





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