Suggest the possibility of not using the Windows print dialog to print

on Windows.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=11545

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gtk/print_mswin.c b/gtk/print_mswin.c
index 4f805f6cf0..fb830448d3 100644
--- a/gtk/print_mswin.c
+++ b/gtk/print_mswin.c
@@ -90,6 +90,18 @@ void print_mswin(char *file_name)
    {
        PRINTDLG pdlg;
 
+       /*
+        * XXX - can this be done without a Windows print dialog?
+        *
+        * "CreateDC()" creates a device context, and you can
+        * apparently specify WINSPL16 as the driver name on
+        * Windows OT, or ther name of a "print provider", such as
+        * "WINSPOOL" on Windows NT, to get a context for a printer.
+        *
+        * The device name would be the printer name as shown by the
+        * Print Manager; is there a way to enumerate those?
+        */
+
        /* Initialize the PRINTDLG structure. */
        memset( &pdlg, 0, sizeof( PRINTDLG ) );
        pdlg.lStructSize = sizeof( PRINTDLG );