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Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX Printing Extensions and Drivers /
Chapter 3 - Printer Drivers


User Interface and Chooser Support

You need to provide at least a minimal user interface to your printer driver, including support for the user to select printing choices, an interface to the Chooser for selecting your printer driver, and a collection of icons to represent your printer driver on the user's screen.

The contents of the the ChooserSupport.r file, which contains the Chooser resource definitions for the ImageWriter II driver, are shown in the QuickDraw GX sample code. The icon definitions for the ImageWriter II driver are found in the newapp.r resource file, which is also shown in the QuickDraw GX sample code.


Subtopics
Providing Printing Choices
The Chooser and Your Driver
Defining Desktop Printer Icons for Your Printer Driver

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