Steve Teale Wrote:
Alternatively, let me explain my desire. When my program first runs, I want to
hazard a guess as to what size of paper the user is likely to use - US Letter
Size, or A4/inches or metric.
Do you wanna say all pdfs from america are done in letter size and won't print
right
Steve Teale Wrote:
Anyway, how would you do it?
You need a compatibility layer like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org
They already can have solution or you can consult with them.
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:48 Steve Teale wrote:
Looking at the documentation makes my head hurt, especially if I have
consumed some beer, when I am not pure and immutable.
For an overview, check out http://d-programming-language.org/intro-to-
datetime.html
I'd _love_ to fix the links
Oh, so it is difficult after all! I thought it was just me.
So I am probably going to have to ask. Then the interesting question will be
which
way around will offend fewest people.
I have installed it as ISO, then have to ask US users if they would prefer
Letter
Size, or the other way round
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 19:30:24 Steve Teale wrote:
Oh, so it is difficult after all! I thought it was just me.
No. It's hard. The best that you can get by asking Posix functions is the std
and DST abbreviations for the current time zone - and those are non-unique.
You'd have to do
On 09/15/2011 07:48 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
Alternatively, let me explain my desire. When my program first runs, I want to
hazard a guess as to what size of paper the user is likely to use - US Letter
Size, or A4/inches or metric. GTK does not seem to want to tell me about the
default printer
