[cups.development] How to read all groups mentioned in PPD file?

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue May 26 09:02:15 PDT 2009


Mangesh Kute wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How to read all groups mentioned in PPD file?
> I am trying to create user interface showing all configurable options
> in PPD file.
> ppdOpenFIle reads PPD file in memory. But it only reads first group.
> How to read subsequent groups in PPD file ?

All groups are read.  The ppd_file_t structure contains "groups" and
"num_groups" members which contain the options in each group.

Sub-groups are *not* currently supported due to abuse by certain
vendors (where there was one option per sub-group...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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