[open-beos-printing] Re: Margin View and Settings

>For *fine* reporting (the only one we really would like under a 
>[Open]BeOS system!), we'll need to first count how many pages we have 
>(easy!), how many BPicture(s) describe each page content (still easy) 
>and how many operations each BPicture have (need a count-only BPicture 
>playbacks handlers to count them...).

Sounds cool. I'll make a note of this...

>Then, progress reporting should be a message sent to our 
ProgressWindow 
>for now, then print=3D5Fserver when global progress report/window will 
be 
>added to his feature...

Have to think about this, but I'll let you know...

>
>On another side, we still need to add default=3D5Fsettings public hook 
in 
>driver.cpp, which should return a basic BMessage set up 
>(printable=3D5Frect, page=3D5Frect, etc).
>I'm not sure we know the real default=3D5Fsettings prototype, anyway... 
but 
>it should be figure out.

BMessage* default=5Fsettings(BNode* printer);

:)



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