Re: Carbon From CUPS ?.

Sriram S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to launch an application which would monitor the progress 
> of the printer job on MAC OS X, I would like to do this for every job, 
> as of now I think CUPS Filter is the best place to do this,
>
> 1.Can I launch the Job monitoring application from else where other than 
> the CUPS filter ?.
> 2.Can I launch the Job monitoring Carbon application from my CUPS filter ?.

No, since the filter runs as a separate, unpriviledged user, you
can't start a GUI directly from a filter.

That said, you can probably do something from the application side
which either monitors the job directly or starts another application
which does so when you print.

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