[Gambas-user] Trouble printing from "Printing Example"

[Fabien Bodard]

2015-06-09 16:38 GMT+02:00 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> Le 09/06/2015 16:29, Martin McGlensey a écrit :
>> Good Morning,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 and Gambas 3.7.1. My printer is a Canon
>> Image-Class MF4150 connected through Samba to a PC running Windows 8. I have
>> installed the driver provided by Canon for Linux. Prior to running the Print
>> Example all worked with no problem. I was able to print a printer test page
>> and a file. The print queue emptied as it should.
>>
>>
>>
>> I ran the print example in the debugger. Selected the print button to print
>> the file "Molly Malone". The printer dialog opened and the document was sent
>> to the queue. OK so far. The document never printed and it showed
>> "processing" in the queue. After four to five minutes the document still had
>> not printed.  Other documents were behind waiting to be printed. Deleting
>> the stuck job did not release the other jobs. Rebooting did not help. No
>> other document, from any app, would not print. Had to delete and reinstall
>> the printer to get it to print again. Verified that the print example app
>> was at fault by printing a text file and a test page before running the app.
>>
>>
>>
>> Attached are errors seen in the console during execution of the print
>> example. This is the first time I've tried to print so I'm not sure what to
>> do from here. I assume the app works or it would not be in the example file.
>> Maybe you guys can help and suggest what I can do to find the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marty
>>
>
> Priting is a bad beast in gb.gtk/gb.gtk3, so I will look at that. But
> even if buggy in Gambas, I don't see how can it can stuck your printer
> queue. There is another problem outside of Gambas I guess...

Yes it's purely a gtk problem... gtk have many problem on dealing with
printer...

One app can work ... change just a single thing can crash ... pff

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