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William
William

Reputation: 13642

Mac OS X native printing from a Java desktop application

I would like to implement Mac OS X native printing in my Java desktop application.

That is, this print dialog when the user chooses to print:

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which then expands to a dialog such as this:

As I understand it, native Mac OS X applications can customise the 2nd dialog by adding an option in the lower drop-down ("TextEdit" in the screenshot) which when selected displays options specific to the application.

How is the best way to go about achieving this in my Java application? I presume I will need to write some Objective C to do what I need, then use JNA/JNI to call it? Are they are pre-existing libraries that can help me?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1904

Answers (1)

Lee
Lee

Reputation: 931

You are correct in think you need to go down the JNI route.

Apple has a tech note on developing JNI routines here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2147/_index.html

Upvotes: 1

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