| Re: DIALOG_PRINTJOB and DIALOG_PRINTERSETUP [message #29335 is a reply to message #29329] |
Wed, 13 February 2002 17:08  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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James Kuyper (kuyper@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:
> What exactly is the difference supposed to be between DIALOG_PRINTJOB
> and DIALOG_PRINTERSETUP?
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> About the only difference I can see between their descriptions is that
> DIALOG_PRINTJOB is supposed to set the "parameters", while
> DIALOG_PRINTERSETUP is supposed to set the "properties". I have no idea
> what that's supposed to mean.
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> On my particular system, "JOB" is a tiny dialog, which allows me to
> select whether or not to use compression, the scale, and the number of
> copies. "SETUP" is a much bigger dialog, that covers both scale and
> number of copies, but not compression, and a whole lot of other things.
> Apparantly "compression" is a parameter, "scale" and "number of copies"
> count as both parameters and properties, and every thing else is a
> property. Huh?
Leaving aside descriptions for the moment (although I
do seem to recognize this from my own writing as the
kinds of words you choose if you are waving your hands
while you are searching your vocabulary), I think the
dialogs are certainly operating system specific, and
probably vendor specific. In other words, what comes
up depends on what was installed when the printer was
installed.
I suspect IDL has as much control over it as it
does over DIALOG_PICKFILE, for example. As such, it
is awfully hard to explain. I typically use DIALOG_PRINTERSETUP
because that gives the use lots of options, and if they
hit OK, I just assume they know what the hell they are
doing. What else can you do?
Cheers,
David
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