Hey dude Just wondering how the print logic going for you...
Did you write a routine to discover local printers and name them for the environment... I.e. HP laser = red badges sent via droid On Aug 31, 2010 4:48 PM, "Laurence MacNeill" <[email protected]> wrote: > I could really use some major advice here. We're so close to the finishing > point on this project, and we're being held back by stupid printing > problems... > > We *HAVE* to be able to print with no pop-up dialog boxes. None. Period. > > To make matters more complicated, the choice of which printer to send the > job to will be affected by the data (i.e. a client with reg-code X gets > printed on printer-1 and a client with reg-code Y gets printed on printer-2 > -- stuff like that.) So the program will somehow have to know what > printer(s) are attached (or networked) to the machine -- it can't just send > all print-jobs to the default printer. > > We have to automate all of this, because the temp-workers we hire can't be > counted on to remember how do it correctly. Gotta be idiot-proof... (I > know, every time you think you've made something idiot-proof, the Universe > comes up with bigger and better idiots... So let's say "mostly" idiot > proof.) > > So... Any ideas on how I can deal with this? Should I dump Flash Player and > switch to AIR? That would that give me better control over the printing, > yes? But, can AIR actually do all that I'm asking for here? > > And, if we do switch to AIR, what will that mean for accessing our data from > our ColdFusion/SQL server through https:, if anything? Any other pitfalls > you can think of when migrating from Flash Player to AIR? Is there actually > a way to do this from the Flash Player, and maybe I won't need to deal with > AIR at all? > > Sorry about all the questions, but we're really stuck here, and I've got to > find a way to do this... > > Thanks, > Laurence MacNeill > Mableton, Georgia, USA
