On windows SWT printing supports the standard printing API of windows (IE. the devices available in the print dialog of word would be available to SWT).
Michael Whapples On 01/12/10 00:53, qubit wrote:
what about windows? --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples"<mwhapples@xxxxxxx> To:<brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:56 PM Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Embosser Drivers The SWT printing stuff uses cups on Unix and I guess also on Mac. Michael Whapples On 30/11/10 22:49, John J. Boyer wrote:I don't think CUPS is cross-platform. For our purposes it would be better to use the SWT print package. If the CUPS drivers are open source we could look at them and adapt them. John On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:36:27PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:Hi John, Would it not be a good idea to incorporate existing CUPS drives into the mix? There is already drivers for some embossers available for use with CUPS if I remember correctly. Regards, Alex, On 2010-11-30, at 2:16 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:The first driver to be developed wil of course be the generic driver, unless we can pick up some drivers from vendors. All the dirvers 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 -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilitiesAlex Jurgensen, VoiceOver Trainer, ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
