[cups.development] Re: Launching an application from CUPS Backend

[Jerome Alet]

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:26:51AM -0400, Mohit Kumar wrote:
> 
> What I doubt is that does CUPS disable any kind of UI throw up 
> from its backend? 

This is not the case to the best of my knowledge.

That being said, you are probably using the wrong approach.

What you should do is this :

  - Write your GUI app the way you want, and make it listen
    on some network interface (or named pipe, or whatever).
    
  - Write a simple non-GUI backend, which will just dialog
    through a network connection (or pipe, etc...) with
    your GUI app (by extracting the username and the job originating
    host name, you'll know where to connect to)
    
hoping this helps    

bye

Jerome Alet