[Gambas-user] GTK and printing to printer

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Rob Kudla wrote:

> On Sun January 29 2006 00:48, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> > > Not yet, I've not implemented the printer class. In fact
> > > I'll need a separate component as printers are part of the
> > > Gnome libraries, not the GTK libraries.
> > What about using something like CUPS (Common Unix Printing
> > System)?
>
> GNOME or Qt printing support is to CUPS as Gtk or Qt is to X.
> They have different purposes, and in the case of high-level
> application development, both are necessary.
>
> I thought gimp-print was part of Gtk now, though.

If that is true then it should be possible to make a component that uses
CUPS directly to implement a printing class independant of Qt and Gtk.

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