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]
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>
> 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
>>
>>
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