Thanks a lot for the information. I will try this out.
With Best Regards
David
On Thursday, November 29, 2007, at 12:36PM, "David Gelphman" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Re:
>On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:07 PM, David Lobo wrote:
>
>> How to create an application PDE?
>
>If you are a Cocoa application the best approach for creating a custom
>PDE for your application on Leopard is to use the NSViewController
>class; see the NSPrintPanel.h file in Leopard. Pre-Leopard there is a
>less flexible way to do it using a different approach; sorry but the
>exact name eludes me at the moment. I'm sure others on the list will
>know.
>
>If you are a Carbon application OR if you want to override a built in
>panel such as the Copies and Pages panel, you have to write a printing
>dialog extension. There is a sample of how to do that for a Carbon
>application in /Developer/Examples/Printing/App/CarbonPrintingSample
>in a Leopard install with Developer Tools. That technique works in
>Tiger and Leopard.
>
>> And also how can I overwrite "Copies &Pages" PDE?
>
>To override the Copies and Pages PDE, your substitute PDE needs to
>have as its kind ID the string kPMCopiesAndPagesPDEKindID as defined
>in PMPrintingDialogExtensions.h. This header file is part of the Print
>framework that is a subframework of the Carbon framework.
>PMPrintingDialogExtensions.h contains the unique identifiers from
>panels that you can override (and some that don't exist!).
>
>Note that Apple discourages you from overriding the system built-in
>panels for many reasons. One important reason is that as we add
>functionality to the printing panels, your override panel will prevent
>users from accessing that functionality. In Leopard we added a
>"Duplex" check box so that users have easy access to the duplex
>feature of printers that support it. An application override of the
>Copies and Pages PDE doesn't automatically get that behavior and
>duplicating the exact behavior might be difficult.
>
>> What should be the PDE name and where to install this?
>
>You can title the panel however you want but of course if you are
>replacing a standard panel you probably want to reproduce the title of
>the one you are replacing. If you are overriding a standard panel as a
>part of your application, that code doesn't live anyplace special just
>because it is replacing a standard panel. The key is that the kind ID
>of your PDE is the proper ID.
>
>Hope this helps,
>David
>
>
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