Yup. AutoHotKey does the same thing for me and doesn't require a license. But it's still a third party app required to do something I think AIR should do already.
-Cameron On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Scott Talsma <[email protected]> wrote: > But zinc will definitely bust your AIR concept. Unless you create a > zinc stub that launched the AIR app, and then the print commands are > sent to zinc via localconnection for printing. Definitely a hack. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: >> Merapi might - cept I'd like to avoid requiring users to take that >> extra step of installing something else.. >> >> I found that Zinc will also allow you to skip the confirmation dialog. >> >> -Cameron >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Douglas Knudsen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > > > > -- > Scott Talsma > CTO, echoEleven > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------
