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Re: CUPS and error dialogs

On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Tobias Peciva wrote:
On 2/03/2004, at 1:50 PM, Dave Camp wrote:

I can't seem to get CUPS print jobs to display any kind of error dialog like Tioga drivers are able to do.

For example, the following lines of code in my main() don't seem to do anything:

fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: This is a bad error\n");
return 1;

I was expecting to see the OS display some sort of alert indicating the print job failed, but that does not happen.

Am I missing something?

These errors are not displayed to the user; they only end up in the CUPS error log (/var/log/cups/error_log).

However, if you use a tag of "INFO: ", the message will be displayed in Print Center (10.2) or the jobs window for the current printer (10.3).

So, there is no way to get the user's attention if there is a printer error (e.g. a paper jam)? I would have hoped some sort of dialog would be displayed by PSU or the little status app created for the queue.

Dave

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