[cups.general] cups function that would return currently selected destination

[Michael Sweet]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:16 PM, ronaly wrote:
> Is there a cups function that returns the current selected
> destination (print queue) by the user in the print dialog?

No.

> I am working a PDE. Instead of using PMPrinter which I heard
> apple will deprecate  it in the future, I'm thinking if there
> are cups functions that can query on the selected printer
> in the print dialog. I only know cupsGetDest() but it can
> only return the default print queue.

We have not announced (nor am I aware of) any plans to deprecate  
PMPrinter. PMPrinter (and the companion NSPrinter class for Cocoa) are  
the objects to use in a GUI.

The only place you shouldn't use the PM APIs is in CUPS filters since  
there is no user session for them to work with.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer