Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Here is the debugged script. It turned out to be more complicated than I thought, as usual. (Murphy was a programmer, right?) Call checkPrinter before any printing commands. The first time you plug in a never-encountered printer and try to print something you will be asked to identify the printer by selecting it in an answer printer dialog; thereafter that printer will be used for printing automatically whenever it is connected and turned on. Note that the currently chosen default printer (in the system preferences) will *not* be changed, just the Rev global property the printerName, which contains the name of the printer the Rev engine will use for printing from any RevTalk commands. This is Mac OSX only at this point. Someone with WIndows expertise could adapt this as needed -- might be trivial, might be complex. I don't know, I don't do Windows. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig on checkPrinter put getActivePrinter() into tLivePrinterInIOR --## listing of connected printer(s) in IO registry if tLivePrinterInIOR = empty then put You are not connected to any active printer. Please check that \ your printer is turned on and connected properly. into tPrompt answer tPrompt as sheet exit to top else if the number of lines of tLivePrinterInIOR 1 then --## more than one connected device might be a printer --## but we might know this printer already repeat for each line p in tLivePrinterInIOR put the IORtoPrinterName[p] of stack myLibrary into tPossiblePrinterName --## myLibrary or whatever stack you use to store the customprop --## customprop IORtoPrinterName[p] gives name of the (possible) printer --## in system prefs, stored when printer first encountered --## will return empty if p is not a known printer if tPossiblePrinterName empty then --## found a known printer, set the printername, then done set the printername to tPossiblePrinterName exit checkPrinter end if end repeat --## no entries are a known printer, --## ask user to sort it out --## have to construct answer dialog --## with buttons for each device put q(cancel) into btnList repeat for each line p in tLivePrinterInIOR put q(truncate(p,18)) into btnName --## so button names are not too long put q(truncate(p,50)) into promptLine put and btnName after btnList put crpromptLine after promptList end repeat put More than one device might be a connected printer. Please select the \ printer from the following: quote promptList into theDo put answer quote before theDo put with btnList as sheet after theDo do theDo put it into whichDevice if whichDevice = cancel then exit to top if char -1 of whichDevice = â¦Â then delete char -1 of whichDevice --## ellipsis character (option-;) from the truncate() function put line lineoffset(whichDevice,tLivePrinterInIOR) of tLivePrinterInIOR into \ tLivePrinterInIOR end if --## now tLivePrinterInIOR contains one entry put the IORtoPrinterName[tLivePrinterInIOR] of stack myLibrary \ into tLivePrinterName --## myLibrary or whatever stack you used to store the customprop --## IORtoPrinterName[tLivePrinterInIOR] gives name of this printer --## in system prefs, stored when printer first encountered --## it will return empty if not a known printer put the printername into tCurrentRevPrinterName --## printer currently designated as the printer for Rev to use if tCurrentRevPrinterName = tLivePrinterName and tCurrentRevPrinterName \ empty then exit checkPrinter --## currently connected to the chosen printer, --## do nothing further end if --## else: if tLivePrinterName = empty then --## never seen this printer put Please choose the current printer ( tLivePrinterInIOR \ ) so it can be identified in the future. into tPrompt answer tPrompt as sheet set the systemprintselector to true answer printer --## sets the printername (used by Rev for printing) if the result = cancel then exit to top put the printername into tPrinterName set the IORtoPrinterName[tLivePrinterInIOR] of stack myLibrary to tPrinterName --## myLibrary or whatever stack you use to store the customprop else --## a known printer is currently live, just start using it set the printername to tLivePrinterName end if end checkPrinter function getActivePrinter put shell(ioreg) into tList filter tList with *class IOUSBDevice* filter tList without *UserClient* filter tList without *Keyboard* filter
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
This worked for me on my home printer, and I had high hopes for it, but if fails this morning here at work. The problem seems to be that with some printers the listing from the ioreg call has little relation to the name of the printer. For instance, my Brother laserjet MFC 8220 (combo printer fax copier) has an ioreg listing of: +-o iousbcompositedev...@fd10 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 12 and there is no way of telling that this is a Brother 8220 or relating it to the availablePrinters, not on the face of it, anyway. I'm working on a solution that will involve storing the ioreg name of a given printer as a customprop ioregListing[printerName] More to come. I'm determined to make this work as invisibly as possible. It has long been a irritation for me that the system doesn't automatically just send print jobs to the available printer. There's no reason on earth why you should have to change printers manually (after the first time you use one, of course). The system knows what's plugged in, for goodness sake. [g...] -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Everyone is doing it, so... here is what I came up with. Watch line wraps please. Hopefully the comments explain what the code is doing. on mouseUp answer UsbPrinterList() end mouseUp function UsbPrinterList -- set item delimiter set the itemDelimiter to tab -- make a list of all active USB I/O devices put shell(ioreg) into tActiveDeviceList filter tActiveDeviceList with *IOUSBDevice* -- remove all but USB devices from list replace @ with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- isolate device name replace +-o with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- device name is item 2 of each line -- get all known printer names, whether active or not put the availablePrinters into tPrinterNames -- identify active USB printers in the USB device list put empty into tUsbPrinters repeat for each line tDeviceLine in tActiveDeviceList put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of tDeviceLine into tDeviceName -- could be partial device name get tPrinterNames filter it with (* tDeviceName *) if it = empty then next repeat -- device is not a printer -- USB device is a printer, so get full name repeat for each line tFoundPrinter in it put tFoundPrinter cr after tUsbPrinters end repeat end repeat delete last char of tUsbPrinters -- trailing CR return tUsbPrinters end UsbPrinterList Thanks - Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, In English work, but in Spanish and others languages don't. The result of the shell command is: destino por omision del sistema: HP_Photosmart_C4200_series So we must check for the : and get the printer name. set itemdel to : put item 2 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter function getDefaultPrinter put word 4 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter -- shell returns: system default destination: HP_DESKJET_845C replace _ with space in tDefaultPrinter return tDefaultPrinter end getDefaultPrinter The getActivePrinter get all the USB devices. In my case, my LaCie disk, the iPhone, the DataTraveler and the HP printer.. How to filter between them? Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Hi Peter, If you filter out all lines from ioreg output except ones that contain IOUSBCompositeDevice, do you see the printer name in any line? If so, maybe available printer names could be matched to the device names in IOUSBDevice and IOUSBCompositeDevice records. Phil Peter Brigham MD wrote: This worked for me on my home printer, and I had high hopes for it, but if fails this morning here at work. The problem seems to be that with some printers the listing from the ioreg call has little relation to the name of the printer. For instance, my Brother laserjet MFC 8220 (combo printer fax copier) has an ioreg listing of: +-o iousbcompositedev...@fd10 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 12 and there is no way of telling that this is a Brother 8220 or relating it to the availablePrinters, not on the face of it, anyway. I'm working on a solution that will involve storing the ioreg name of a given printer as a customprop ioregListing[printerName] More to come. I'm determined to make this work as invisibly as possible. It has long been a irritation for me that the system doesn't automatically just send print jobs to the available printer. There's no reason on earth why you should have to change printers manually (after the first time you use one, of course). The system knows what's plugged in, for goodness sake. [g...] -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Everyone is doing it, so... here is what I came up with. Watch line wraps please. Hopefully the comments explain what the code is doing. on mouseUp answer UsbPrinterList() end mouseUp function UsbPrinterList -- set item delimiter set the itemDelimiter to tab -- make a list of all active USB I/O devices put shell(ioreg) into tActiveDeviceList filter tActiveDeviceList with *IOUSBDevice* -- remove all but USB devices from list replace @ with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- isolate device name replace +-o with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- device name is item 2 of each line -- get all known printer names, whether active or not put the availablePrinters into tPrinterNames -- identify active USB printers in the USB device list put empty into tUsbPrinters repeat for each line tDeviceLine in tActiveDeviceList put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of tDeviceLine into tDeviceName -- could be partial device name get tPrinterNames filter it with (* tDeviceName *) if it = empty then next repeat -- device is not a printer -- USB device is a printer, so get full name repeat for each line tFoundPrinter in it put tFoundPrinter cr after tUsbPrinters end repeat end repeat delete last char of tUsbPrinters -- trailing CR return tUsbPrinters end UsbPrinterList Thanks - Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, In English work, but in Spanish and others languages don't. The result of the shell command is: destino por omision del sistema: HP_Photosmart_C4200_series So we must check for the : and get the printer name. set itemdel to : put item 2 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter function getDefaultPrinter put word 4 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter -- shell returns: system default destination: HP_DESKJET_845C replace _ with space in tDefaultPrinter return tDefaultPrinter end getDefaultPrinter The getActivePrinter get all the USB devices. In my case, my LaCie disk, the iPhone, the DataTraveler and the HP printer.. How to filter between them? Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
There is only that one entry in the ioreg output that contains IOUSBCompositeDevice and that entry disappears if I unplug that printer, so it's undoubtedly the listing for my laserjet. But there is nothing in the ioreg listing that identifies the printer more specifically, and thus there is no way of linking that entry to the listing in my available printers just by looking at the names. (Not to mention that the user can rename any printer in the system prefs printer list to whatever s/he likes.) I think I have found a solution that involves storing the printername as the value of a customprop with key = the ioreg name -- do this the first time the printer is encountered then use the customprop to set the printername automatically after that. I'm testing it over the next few days -- seems to be working so far -- and I will post the working script (I hope) in a little while. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Peter, If you filter out all lines from ioreg output except ones that contain IOUSBCompositeDevice, do you see the printer name in any line? If so, maybe available printer names could be matched to the device names in IOUSBDevice and IOUSBCompositeDevice records. Phil Peter Brigham MD wrote: This worked for me on my home printer, and I had high hopes for it, but if fails this morning here at work. The problem seems to be that with some printers the listing from the ioreg call has little relation to the name of the printer. For instance, my Brother laserjet MFC 8220 (combo printer fax copier) has an ioreg listing of: +-o iousbcompositedev...@fd10 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 12 and there is no way of telling that this is a Brother 8220 or relating it to the availablePrinters, not on the face of it, anyway. I'm working on a solution that will involve storing the ioreg name of a given printer as a customprop ioregListing[printerName] More to come. I'm determined to make this work as invisibly as possible. It has long been a irritation for me that the system doesn't automatically just send print jobs to the available printer. There's no reason on earth why you should have to change printers manually (after the first time you use one, of course). The system knows what's plugged in, for goodness sake. [g...] -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Everyone is doing it, so... here is what I came up with. Watch line wraps please. Hopefully the comments explain what the code is doing. on mouseUp answer UsbPrinterList() end mouseUp function UsbPrinterList -- set item delimiter set the itemDelimiter to tab -- make a list of all active USB I/O devices put shell(ioreg) into tActiveDeviceList filter tActiveDeviceList with *IOUSBDevice* -- remove all but USB devices from list replace @ with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- isolate device name replace +-o with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- device name is item 2 of each line -- get all known printer names, whether active or not put the availablePrinters into tPrinterNames -- identify active USB printers in the USB device list put empty into tUsbPrinters repeat for each line tDeviceLine in tActiveDeviceList put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of tDeviceLine into tDeviceName -- could be partial device name get tPrinterNames filter it with (* tDeviceName *) if it = empty then next repeat -- device is not a printer -- USB device is a printer, so get full name repeat for each line tFoundPrinter in it put tFoundPrinter cr after tUsbPrinters end repeat end repeat delete last char of tUsbPrinters -- trailing CR return tUsbPrinters end UsbPrinterList Thanks - Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, In English work, but in Spanish and others languages don't. The result of the shell command is: destino por omision del sistema: HP_Photosmart_C4200_series So we must check for the : and get the printer name. set itemdel to : put item 2 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter function getDefaultPrinter put word 4 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter -- shell returns: system default destination: HP_DESKJET_845C replace _ with space in tDefaultPrinter return tDefaultPrinter end getDefaultPrinter The getActivePrinter get all the USB devices. In my case, my LaCie disk, the iPhone, the DataTraveler and the HP printer.. How to filter between them? Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list [hidden email] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution View message @ http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624409.html To unsubscribe from Re: knowing if a printer is connected, click here. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624552.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Hi, In English work, but in Spanish and others languages don't. The result of the shell command is: destino por omision del sistema: HP_Photosmart_C4200_series So we must check for the : and get the printer name. set itemdel to : put item 2 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter function getDefaultPrinter put word 4 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter -- shell returns: system default destination: HP_DESKJET_845C replace _ with space in tDefaultPrinter return tDefaultPrinter end getDefaultPrinter The getActivePrinter get all the USB devices. In my case, my LaCie disk, the iPhone, the DataTraveler and the HP printer.. How to filter between them? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p699883.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Everyone is doing it, so... here is what I came up with. Watch line wraps please. Hopefully the comments explain what the code is doing. on mouseUp answer UsbPrinterList() end mouseUp function UsbPrinterList -- set item delimiter set the itemDelimiter to tab -- make a list of all active USB I/O devices put shell(ioreg) into tActiveDeviceList filter tActiveDeviceList with *IOUSBDevice* -- remove all but USB devices from list replace @ with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- isolate device name replace +-o with tab in tActiveDeviceList -- device name is item 2 of each line -- get all known printer names, whether active or not put the availablePrinters into tPrinterNames -- identify active USB printers in the USB device list put empty into tUsbPrinters repeat for each line tDeviceLine in tActiveDeviceList put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of tDeviceLine into tDeviceName -- could be partial device name get tPrinterNames filter it with (* tDeviceName *) if it = empty then next repeat -- device is not a printer -- USB device is a printer, so get full name repeat for each line tFoundPrinter in it put tFoundPrinter cr after tUsbPrinters end repeat end repeat delete last char of tUsbPrinters -- trailing CR return tUsbPrinters end UsbPrinterList Thanks - Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, In English work, but in Spanish and others languages don't. The result of the shell command is: destino por omision del sistema: HP_Photosmart_C4200_series So we must check for the : and get the printer name. set itemdel to : put item 2 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter function getDefaultPrinter put word 4 of shell(lpstat -d) into tDefaultPrinter -- shell returns: system default destination: HP_DESKJET_845C replace _ with space in tDefaultPrinter return tDefaultPrinter end getDefaultPrinter The getActivePrinter get all the USB devices. In my case, my LaCie disk, the iPhone, the DataTraveler and the HP printer.. How to filter between them? Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
I'm very glad that this will be usefully for you. As I say, the only problem is convert the printer name to use _. I preparing my own stack printer options to print using the shell commands. Here you can found more info with more deep. http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html When I have something visible I send you for if can be usefully. Salut, Josep El 20/11/2009, a las 6:14, Phil Davis-5 [via Runtime Revolution] escribió: This is the best so far! Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, Also you can use from the shell: lpstat -p -- to see the available printers lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name and to send directly to the printer: lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file to print If you check the lpr command in CUPS manual you can see a lot of options to control the job sended to the printer. The question is capture the name of the printer or class. The name use _ for spaces, assigning the name directly don't work, almost for me. Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list [hidden email] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution View message @ http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624409.html To unsubscribe from Re: knowing if a printer is connected, click here. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624552.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Yeah, I discovered that one already. Many different ways of getting the printers that are in the system preferences printing panel. But apparently no way of telling which one is actually connected and live. It's hard to believe that the system is unaware of this piece of info until a print job is actually sent to the driver. I keep thinking there must be a way, via a shell function at the very least. But maybe not Any other ideas before I give up on this? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote: BNig wrote: The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current printer is the default printer. regards Bernd You can also get the names of the printers with: put the availablePrinters into tList :-) -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
This seems to do it for me as well. I'm trying this (watch linewraps) (in a button, for testing) on mouseUp put shell(ioreg) into tList filter tList with *IOUSBDevice* -- | | | +-o DeskJet 8...@1d10 class IOUSBDevice, \ -- registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 -- | | | +-o IR recei...@5d10 class IOUSBDevice, \ -- registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 -- | | | +-o Apple Internal Keyboard / track...@5d20 class \ -- IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 10 -- | | | +-o iousbwirelesscontrollerdev...@1a10 class \ -- IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 10 -- | | | +-o wireless laser notebook mo...@1a20 class \ -- IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 -- | | | +-o Built-in isi...@fd40 class IOUSBDevice, \ -- registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 9 filter tList without *Keyboard* filter tList without * IR * filter tList without *Wireless* filter tList without *mouse* filter tList without *iSight* -- ?? other things to filter out to leave only printers ?? repeat for each line d in tList put offset(+-o,d)+4 into startChar put offset(class,d)-1 into endChar put sr(char startChar to endChar of d) into d2 put offset(@,d2) into aChar put char 1 to aChar-1 of d2 cr after newList end repeat delete char -1 of newList put newList end mouseUp At my site this morning, this returns Deskjet 845C when the printer is plugged in, and empty if is isn't. What else should be filtered out to leave only the name of the connected printer? There are probably other USB devices that wouldn't be caught by what I have so far. I'll have my beta testers' feedback to work with, but anyone else with a Mac who can chime in here is welcome ... and, anyone know the significance of the number after the @ character for each device? Could I use this to catch printers as opposed to other devices? TIA, -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Phil Davis wrote: This is the best so far! Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, Also you can use from the shell: lpstat -p -- to see the available printers lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name and to send directly to the printer: lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file to print If you check the lpr command in CUPS manual you can see a lot of options to control the job sended to the printer. The question is capture the name of the printer or class. The name use _ for spaces, assigning the name directly don't work, almost for me. Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Peter, tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer end tell this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8 regards Bernd Peter Brigham MD wrote: I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia 4.0 -- eventually I'll get to porting it as a standalone). As it stands now, the user needs to select the currently available printer using the system preferences. I need a way to discover if the printer designated as active in the system preferences is actually the one that is plugged into the USB port. I have a way for the user to change the printer from within the stack, but I'd like to avoid the situation where he tries to print something and gets the bobbing printer driver icon in the dock telling him that that printer is unavailable (because he's at a different site and forgot to change his printer designation). The ideal solution would be to be able to detect the currently connected printer and send any print job automatically to that printer, but I'd settle for just being able to post an alert when trying to print to notify him that he is about to use an unavailable printer. How do I detect what printer is connected? Or at least, detect if a designated printer is connected or not? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624194.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Peter, I was a little too fast with my reply, I am afraid this gives me all the information of the current printer unfortunately it does return idle even if the current printer is off. tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer set tKind to kind of current printer set tproperties to properties of current printer set tJob to job of current printer end tell Since you are looking for an active/connected printer this is probably not working. regards Bernd BNig wrote: Peter, tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer end tell this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8 regards Bernd Peter Brigham MD wrote: I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia 4.0 -- eventually I'll get to porting it as a standalone). As it stands now, the user needs to select the currently available printer using the system preferences. I need a way to discover if the printer designated as active in the system preferences is actually the one that is plugged into the USB port. I have a way for the user to change the printer from within the stack, but I'd like to avoid the situation where he tries to print something and gets the bobbing printer driver icon in the dock telling him that that printer is unavailable (because he's at a different site and forgot to change his printer designation). The ideal solution would be to be able to detect the currently connected printer and send any print job automatically to that printer, but I'd settle for just being able to post an alert when trying to print to notify him that he is about to use an unavailable printer. How do I detect what printer is connected? Or at least, detect if a designated printer is connected or not? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624225.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
It returns idle in all cases? Are you saying that it doesn't distinguish if the printer is on/connected vs off/disconnected? How would I get the contents of the various printer properties from this script into rev variables to test this out? Do I use an 'on appleEvent' handler -- if so, how? Sorry for the naive questions, but I haven't used applescript much. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:33 PM, BNig wrote: Peter, I was a little too fast with my reply, I am afraid this gives me all the information of the current printer unfortunately it does return idle even if the current printer is off. tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer set tKind to kind of current printer set tproperties to properties of current printer set tJob to job of current printer end tell Since you are looking for an active/connected printer this is probably not working. regards Bernd BNig wrote: Peter, tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer end tell this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8 regards Bernd Peter Brigham MD wrote: I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia 4.0 -- eventually I'll get to porting it as a standalone). As it stands now, the user needs to select the currently available printer using the system preferences. I need a way to discover if the printer designated as active in the system preferences is actually the one that is plugged into the USB port. I have a way for the user to change the printer from within the stack, but I'd like to avoid the situation where he tries to print something and gets the bobbing printer driver icon in the dock telling him that that printer is unavailable (because he's at a different site and forgot to change his printer designation). The ideal solution would be to be able to detect the currently connected printer and send any print job automatically to that printer, but I'd settle for just being able to post an alert when trying to print to notify him that he is about to use an unavailable printer. How do I detect what printer is connected? Or at least, detect if a designated printer is connected or not? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624225.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Peter, to test this put this applescript into a field 1 and have a field 2 for the result - tell application Printer Setup Utility set tReturn to set x to name of every printer as list repeat with i from 1 to count of items of x set tReturn to tReturn item i of x tab set tReturn to tReturn item -1 of (properties of printer (item i of x) as list) linefeed end repeat return tReturn end tell put this into a button -- on mouseUp do field 1 as applescript put char 2 to - 3 of the result into field 2 -- gets rid of quotes and trailing linefeed end mouseUp so basically you let applescript return the value/s you are interested in and you check the result. The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current printer is the default printer. regards Bernd Peter Brigham MD wrote: It returns idle in all cases? Are you saying that it doesn't distinguish if the printer is on/connected vs off/disconnected? How would I get the contents of the various printer properties from this script into rev variables to test this out? Do I use an 'on appleEvent' handler -- if so, how? Sorry for the naive questions, but I haven't used applescript much. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624321.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Hi Peter, Here is another approach for OS X that might give you info that's easier to use. Or not. put shell(system_profiler SPPrintersDataType) into tDescriptions In my world it returns this: --- start of data --- Printers: Canon iP1700: Status: Idle Print Server: Local Driver Version: 5.8.3 Default: No URI: usb://Canon/iP1700?serial=705357 PPD: Canon iP1700 PPD File Version: 1.0 PostScript Version: (3011.104) 0 HP Color LaserJet 2600n: Status: Idle Print Server: Local Driver Version: 1.3.0501 Default: Yes URI: mdns://HP%20Color%20LaserJet%202600n._pdl-datastream._tcp.local./?bidi PPD: HP Color LaserJet 2600n PPD File Version: 1.0 PostScript Version: (3011.104) 0 Officejet Pro 8500 A909g [7134F4]: Status: Idle Print Server: Local Driver Version: 1.2 Default: No URI: mdns://Officejet%20Pro%208500%20A909g%20%5B7134F4%5D._pdl-datastream._tcp.local./?bidi PPD: HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909g Series PPD File Version: 1.2 PostScript Version: (3011.104) 0 --- end of data --- I see the URI line in each description tells if it is USB or not. BUT it doesn't tell you the status of the printers; I got the same descriptions when my USB printer was turned on/turned off/unplugged. If I learn more I'll post it. Phil Davis Peter Brigham MD wrote: It returns idle in all cases? Are you saying that it doesn't distinguish if the printer is on/connected vs off/disconnected? How would I get the contents of the various printer properties from this script into rev variables to test this out? Do I use an 'on appleEvent' handler -- if so, how? Sorry for the naive questions, but I haven't used applescript much. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:33 PM, BNig wrote: Peter, I was a little too fast with my reply, I am afraid this gives me all the information of the current printer unfortunately it does return idle even if the current printer is off. tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer set tKind to kind of current printer set tproperties to properties of current printer set tJob to job of current printer end tell Since you are looking for an active/connected printer this is probably not working. regards Bernd BNig wrote: Peter, tell application Printer Setup Utility set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for the name of your current/default printer end tell this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8 regards Bernd Peter Brigham MD wrote: I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia 4.0 -- eventually I'll get to porting it as a standalone). As it stands now, the user needs to select the currently available printer using the system preferences. I need a way to discover if the printer designated as active in the system preferences is actually the one that is plugged into the USB port. I have a way for the user to change the printer from within the stack, but I'd like to avoid the situation where he tries to print something and gets the bobbing printer driver icon in the dock telling him that that printer is unavailable (because he's at a different site and forgot to change his printer designation). The ideal solution would be to be able to detect the currently connected printer and send any print job automatically to that printer, but I'd settle for just being able to post an alert when trying to print to notify him that he is about to use an unavailable printer. How do I detect what printer is connected? Or at least, detect if a designated printer is connected or not? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624225.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
BNig wrote: The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current printer is the default printer. regards Bernd You can also get the names of the printers with: put the availablePrinters into tList :-) -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Here's another OS X shell command that will list only the USB printers turned on. Unfortunately, it doesn't list them by their full names. Here's the code (in a button): on mouseUp put shell(ioreg) into tList filter tList with *IOUSBDevice* put the number of lines in tList cr tList into fld list2 end mouseUp Here's the output on my machine: 8 | | | +-o IR recei...@450 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 | | | +-o Apple Cinema disp...@2432 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 | | | +-o C-Media USB Audio @2433 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 9 | | | +-o Apple Cinema disp...@2472 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 | | | +-o ip1...@2431 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 | | | +-o Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)@640 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8 | | | +-o Bluetooth USB Host control...@611 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 11 | | | +-o Apple keybo...@2622 class IOUSBDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 9 Line 5 above is the USB printer. When I turn the printer off and run the code again, I get 7 lines and the printer line is missing. This printer shows up in the availablePrinters list as Canon iP1700. So there's a partial association between the 2 sets of data. FWIW - Phil Phil Davis wrote: BNig wrote: The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current printer is the default printer. regards Bernd You can also get the names of the printers with: put the availablePrinters into tList :-) -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
Hi, Also you can use from the shell: lpstat -p -- to see the available printers lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name and to send directly to the printer: lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file to print If you check the lpr command in CUPS manual you can see a lot of options to control the job sended to the printer. The question is capture the name of the printer or class. The name use _ for spaces, assigning the name directly don't work, almost for me. Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/knowing-if-a-printer-is-connected-tp624188p624396.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: knowing if a printer is connected
This is the best so far! Phil Davis JosepM wrote: Hi, Also you can use from the shell: lpstat -p -- to see the available printers lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name and to send directly to the printer: lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file to print If you check the lpr command in CUPS manual you can see a lot of options to control the job sended to the printer. The question is capture the name of the printer or class. The name use _ for spaces, assigning the name directly don't work, almost for me. Salut, Josep -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
