not a uncommon question and I've yet to hear of anything myself on this. I'm going to guess Merapi might be able to help.
Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:36 PM, John Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't think there's an AIR only solution at this point. Certainly worth > pinging Adobe to see if that can be included in the next version. > > John > > > > Cameron Childress wrote: > >> 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 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
