Re: Re: Carbon From CUPS ?.

Thanks Michael for the reply.

You have mentioned that "you can probably do something from the application 
side", what do you mean by application here ? Is it the Job Monitoring 
application you are referring to ? or the Application from which I am trying to 
print ? 

How can I launch my application, whenever a Job is fired using my 
printer/queue, I thought CUPS is the only way, is there any other place like 
the Printer Module where I can do this ?, I am using MAC OS X.

Actually my Job monitoring application does more than Job monitoring, it will 
look for errors in the Private SNMP MIB and pop-up appropriate help message to 
the user, hence I will definitely need the Printer IP address and the Job ID 
before I can start the Job/error monitoring application.

Thanks & Regards,
Sriram

Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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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