Eh - I need it to be downloadable, easily deployable. If I have to put CF on there just to get printing to work the way I want it, I'd write the whole thing in CF...
-Cameron On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:36 PM, John Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > Could use CF's cfprint tag that the AIR app pings, I'm assuming you can load > a server on the kiosk. > > John > [email protected] > > > Cameron Childress wrote: >> >> Looking for ideas here... >> >> I have a touchscreen kiosk application that requires printing by >> sometimes very inexperienced users. The problem is that AIR's >> PrintJob.start() requires the user to confirm "Print" on an OS level >> print dialog each time it prints. A few of reasons this is a problem >> in my case. Apologies if I am over explaining a bit here, but I >> wanted to be clear *why* I am looking for this. >> >> 1) The extra step slows down what needs to be a very streamlined and >> quick process. >> 2) The OS level print screen does not match the look and feel of >> the rest of the (full screen) application. >> 3) The buttons on the print dialog is smaller then I'd like for the UI >> to be effective. Giuant buttons are great on a touch screen kiosk >> based application. >> 4) Occasionally the print confirmation gets behind the AIR >> application, confusing the user and making it impossible to interact >> with the AIR application. ALT+TAB brings the dialog screen back, but >> that's not something I expect users to know or even learn. >> >> I've investigated a few ways to automatically confirm the print >> dialog, but these all require third party tools and I would very much >> prefer to find something that can "just work" within AIR. I don't >> want to create a buncha dependencies for this app. That serves to >> undermine the advantage of an easily deployable AIR application. >> >> Anyone have ideas? >> >> -Cameron >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the > subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
