[cups.development] dialog box

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jul 28 07:28:22 PDT 2009


On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Paul Grenning wrote:
> Does cups have a dialog box that can be displayed?

No.

> If I am doing a status query on a printer and receive that the  
> printer is low on paper, I would like to create a dialog box or  
> maybe display something to the terminal.

Use STATE: messages to report the out-of-paper condition, e.g.:

     fputs("STATE: +media-empty-error\n", stderr);

but don't forget to clear it when the condition goes away:

     fputs("STATE: -media-empty-error\n", stderr);

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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