[brailleblaster] Re: Embosser Drivers
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:06:07 -0600
Why would a driver require a user name and password? After all, if you
don't have the embosser installed the driver is useless. A dialog box
would have to be provided somewhere, but can't we avoid drivers with
such a requirement?
John
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:58:22PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> What if the embosser driver requires other parameters, such as a user name or
> password?
>
> Will Braille Blaster display additional parameters in a dialog, after the
> "Emboss" button has been pressed.
>
> If not, should we provide the ability for drivers to present such a dialog as
> part of the driver integration process?
>
> Regards,
> Alex,
>
>
> On 2010-11-30, at 2:16 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > The first driver to be developed will of course be the generic driver,
> > unless we can pick up some drivers from vendors. All the drivers will be
> > in the package embosserdrivers. When something is to be embossed, a
> > method in the DriverManager will be called with a String containing the
> > name of the embosser and either a file or a byte stream. The latter will
> > already have been translated and formatted. The DriverManager will call
> > the driver for the appropriate embosser. Each driver will have a class
> > of its own.
> >
> > John
> >
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> >
>
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