What are "gadget based interfaces", and why do they need to query the browser to enumerate printers?
~Daniel On 01/31/2013 02:54 AM, rvj wrote: > Thanks to both, > > this is a must have bit of functionality .. > > for gadget based interfaces! > > "Zack Weinberg" <za...@panix.com> wrote in message > news:r62dnejc_k946ptmnz2dnuvz_skdn...@mozilla.org... >> On 2013-01-30 2:23 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote: >>> >>> However, be warned that there are patches in bug 629500 to get rid of >>> nsIPrinterEnumerator entirely (though that bug seems to have stalled a >>> bit, so I don't know how soon that will happen). >> >> It's blocked on Windows-specific fixes (bug 693230) -- it looks like >> there's a patch in there, but nobody bothered to ask for review and >> it's also not clear whether it actually works. If anyone has >> low-level Windows GUI programming experience and spare brain cycles I >> could really use help with that part. >> >> The intention is still to remove nsIPrinterEnumerator entirely. All >> the tier-1 platforms nowadays discourage use of the OS-level printer >> enumeration APIs, because they have to talk to the network and may >> block the calling thread for an indefinite period. You're supposed to >> just let the OS-supplied print dialog boxes figure it out for you. >> >> zw > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
