ASL print request
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:32 pm
I'd like to see a standard print requester in ASL.
Currently most software just dumps everything to printer.device:0, which is, quite frankly, a bit rubbish.
A proper print requester that allows the user to select which printer they want to print to, and returns a PrinterData structure with the user-specified values filled in, would be a good initial easy step towards improving the printing system.
Once programs start using the new requester, printing would at least start to look more modern before it eventually gets re-implemented.
I'm not sure if printer.device:0 could be trapped to always pop up a requester and deal with this internally, and printers could be moved onto units 1 and above. If that's feasible then it would give old software an immediate benefit.
Currently most software just dumps everything to printer.device:0, which is, quite frankly, a bit rubbish.
A proper print requester that allows the user to select which printer they want to print to, and returns a PrinterData structure with the user-specified values filled in, would be a good initial easy step towards improving the printing system.
Once programs start using the new requester, printing would at least start to look more modern before it eventually gets re-implemented.
I'm not sure if printer.device:0 could be trapped to always pop up a requester and deal with this internally, and printers could be moved onto units 1 and above. If that's feasible then it would give old software an immediate benefit.