WIMS> RE: Whither the confusion in prtGeneral?

From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com
Date: Mon Nov 20 2006 - 11:59:49 EST

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    Yeow, quite so. I failed to check the conformance requirements. Tnx.
     
    rick

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    From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald@sharplabs.com]
    Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:02
    To: Landau, Richard; McDonald, Ira
    Cc: 'wims@pwg.org'
    Subject: RE: Whither the confusion in prtGeneral?

    Hi Rick,
     
    Steve Waldbusser _half_ moved these scalars up. Though
    the actual OIDs are subordinate to 'prtGeneralEntry', the
    conformance macros (ever since RFC 1759) have it
    backwards, as in the following excerpts:
     
    prtGeneralGroup OBJECT-GROUP
        OBJECTS { prtGeneralConfigChanges,
                  prtGeneralCurrentLocalization,
                  prtGeneralReset, prtCoverDescription,
                  prtCoverStatus,
                  prtLocalizationLanguage, prtLocalizationCountry,
                  prtLocalizationCharacterSet, prtStorageRefIndex,
                  prtDeviceRefIndex }
     
    prtConsoleGroup OBJECT-GROUP
        OBJECTS { prtConsoleLocalization, prtConsoleNumberOfDisplayLines,
                  prtConsoleNumberOfDisplayChars, prtConsoleDisable,
                  prtConsoleDisplayBufferText, prtConsoleOnTime,
                  prtConsoleOffTime, prtConsoleColor,
                  prtConsoleDescription }
     
    Notice the completely broken presence of 'prtCoverStatus'
    in the prtGeneralGroup - and absent prtCoverGroup - duh!
     
    Thanks for reworking the diagram - I agree that the modelling
    is yucky but simpler.
     
    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]
    Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 6:19 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Subject: Whither the confusion in prtGeneral?

    Ira, I think the confusion originally stemmed from something like this.
    (Pure hypothesis. Memory does not go back that far, at least not in
    this level of detail.)

    The prtGeneralTable contains these goodies, among others:

        prtInputDefaultIndex
        prtOutputDefaultIndex
        prtMarkerDefaultIndex
        prtMediaPathDefaultIndex
        prtConsoleLocalization
        prtConsoleNumberOfDisplayLines
        prtConsoleNumberOfDisplayChars
        prtConsoleDisable

    By *name* they appear to belong to their respective groups. However,
    all their OIDs are in the General group, specifically in the General
    table entry. It looks to me as though they were originally formulated
    as members of their respective groups, and that someone picked them up,
    moved the text definition and the OIDs down into the General group. Is
    it possible that this is the relocation that you are remembering?

    Well, in any case, let's be sure to add those properties to the
    CIM_Printer base class. And then there are only two scalars left,
    prtConsoleNumberOfDisplayLines and NumberOfDisplayChars. We move those
    two, too, and voila, emptiness in all the table headers.

    I have already redrawn the pictures. Lots simpler.

    Gobble, gobble.

    rick

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