I can probably get this to work, since my handler already relies on
asking the user once for the USB printer identification then storing
it so the user never has to be asked again. If I can identify the
wireless network I can associate a printer with it, store that
printername, and then proceed.
However, I don't understand much at all about command-line stuff. I ran
put shell("/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/
Versions/Current/Resources/airport-I")
and I get an error. What command should I use to operate on this
filepath? And what's the "-I" at the end? It's not part of the filename.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Can you come at it from a different direction? Can you check
current SSID
against a printer list to select which printer you want? Assuming
you always
go to the same set of networks, this should have a similar affect
yes? Set
it up once, save the printer name, next time you need to print check
the
current ssid and select the appropriate printer name.
YOu can get the current ssid with the following command line.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/
Current/Resources/airport
-I
MOre info than you need, but easy to parse.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Peter Brigham MD <[email protected]>
wrote:
The printername gives the name of the printer currently selected in
the
print dialog, ie, the default printer. On my MacBook, this will be
the last
printer used. But that will not necessarily be the name of the
currently
connected printer, if I have changed venues. I'm trying to find a
way to
discover the name of the printer that is currently connected to the
Mac. I
can do this with a rather complex handler I cobbled together if the
the
printer is plugged in via USB, but I'm struggling to find a way of
getting
the name of a printer that is currently connected wirelessly over
an Airport
router. It turns out that neither lpstat nor lpq seem to do this.
Any further ideas? Anyone?
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig <http://home.comcast.net/%7Epmbrig>
On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 10/8/10 12:30 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:
The availablePrinters shows the list of printers you have named
and have
drivers for -- it's what appears in the print dialog list, from
which
you choose the printer you want to use. I want to know
automatically
which printer my laptop is connected to at the moment so I can
bypass
the print dialog entirely and send all printing to that printer.
Isn't that "the printername"?
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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