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Bug 501414

Summary:

[GTK][Printer] Snippet318 doesn't work on Linux

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Niraj Modi <niraj.modi>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WORKSFORME

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

akurtakov, arunkumar.thondapu, ericwill, sravankumarl

Version:

4.7

Keywords:

triaged

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Updated Snippet318.java	none

Description Niraj Modi

2016-09-14 06:59:32 EDT

Tried with Ubuntu16.04:
Eclipse print option is working but Snippet318 doesn't prints the test page.

Note: If printer preferences are not set then we get below error:
Exception in thread "main" org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4559)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4448)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4419)
	at org.eclipse.swt.printing.Printer.checkNull(Printer.java:299)
	at org.eclipse.swt.printing.Printer.<init>(Printer.java:343)
	at org.eclipse.swt.snippets.Snippet318.main(Snippet318.java:34)

Same snippet works on Windows.

Comment 1 Niraj Modi

2016-09-14 07:00:57 EDT

This bug blocks us from verifying fix-patch in bug 498876 on Linux.

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-09-14 14:31:09 EDT

What happens on Windows if you have no printer installed?

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-09-14 14:32:50 EDT

ERROR_NO_HANDLES - if there are no valid printers from Printer(PrinterData) is documented in the javadoc even.

Comment 4 Niraj Modi

2016-09-15 02:17:20 EDT

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #2)
> What happens on Windows if you have no printer installed?
I don't have a configuration handy to try this but IMHO it should be throwing exception similar to comment 0

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #3)
> ERROR_NO_HANDLES - if there are no valid printers from Printer(PrinterData)
> is documented in the javadoc even.
On Linux, even if a valid printer is configured Snippet318 doesn't print anything(as tried on Ubuntu16.04), whereas same snippet works on Windows.

Comment 5 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-09-15 05:12:35 EDT

I see so with no valid printer there is no exception but nothing is printed. I'll try that.

Comment 6 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-09-15 05:13:10 EDT

I mean with valid printer.

Comment 7 Eric Williams

2016-09-15 10:33:09 EDT

I ran this snippet on my Fedora 24 machine that has a printer configured, but not connected.

The snippet runs and terminates. Nothing happens, nothing printed to console, no exceptions thrown.

Comment 8 Leo Ufimtsev

2016-09-16 11:05:11 EDT

I experienced some breakage in printer in Gtk3.16/Gtk3.18. I wonder if this bug (In reply to Eric Williams from comment #7)
> I ran this snippet on my Fedora 24 machine that has a printer configured,
> but not connected.
> 
> The snippet runs and terminates. Nothing happens, nothing printed to
> console, no exceptions thrown.

I get the same. I get "no more handles" if I run with older version of GTK, ex 3.16.

Comment 9 Niraj Modi

2016-09-19 05:39:51 EDT

Created attachment 264245 [details]
Updated Snippet318.java

(In reply to Eric Williams from comment #7)
(In reply to Leo Ufimtsev from comment #8)
Thanks Eric/Leo for trying.

I updated the Snippet318 to identify when no Default Printer is set and instead print to a PDF file.

Comment 10 Alexander Kurtakov

2018-03-16 16:01:25 EDT

Can this one be closed now?

Comment 11 Eric Williams

2019-01-08 17:07:49 EST

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #10)
> Can this one be closed now?

No response in awhile so I am closing it.