The installation/authorization stuff I can deal with... Not being able to control my print jobs properly, I can't deal with.
I can find surprisingly little information about printing in AIR -- it's almost like printing was an afterthought for Flex and AIR. Exactly how much more control over printing does AIR give me? Can it print everything without pop-ups? Can it control which printer the app sends the print-job to -- again, without pop-ups? Those are the two main things I need. Thanks, L. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > AIR does give more control over printing. AIR requires installation, a > web-hosted app does not. I don't know the security rules that well, but it > isn't clear how you prevent someone from installing the app and accessing > your server unless you require authentication first. > > > On 8/31/10 1:10 PM, "Laurence" <lmacne...@...> 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, and 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.) > > We have to automate this, because the temp-workers we hire can't be counted > on to remember how do it correctly. > > So... Any ideas on how I can deal with this? Should I dump Flash Player and > switch to AIR? Would that give me better control over the printing? Can AIR > actually do all that I'm asking for here? What will switching to AIR mean > for accessing our data from our ColdFusion/SQL server through https:, if > anything? > > Thanks, > Laurence MacNeill > Mableton, Georgia, USA > > > > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe System, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
