Hi,
I'm trying to understand how printing works in Flex.
First, I saw in the documentation both mx.print.FlexPrintJob and
flash.print.PrintJob being
used, with slightly different syntax. Which one is the preferred way to print
from Flex? (I
guess it must be FlexPrintJob - but what are the advantages/disadvantages of
each?)
I saw in the examples that use FlexPrintJob that a component that is to be
printed is first
added to the current application. For instance, I saw examples like this:
var pj:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
if (pj.start()) {
var box:PrintableView = new PrintableView();
box.width = pj.pageWidth;
box.height = pj.pageHeight;
this.addChild(box);
pj.addObject(box);
pj.send();
this.removeChild(box);
}
Adding and then removing the component from the application causes the strange
effect
of PrintableView (in the above example) to be added to the app for a moment.
Ideally, I
wouldn't want to show the print-only component at all (not add it to the
visible component
tree), I'd just simply want to print it. But if I don't add the component
first, then it doesn't
printing either. How could that be accomplished?
Thanks,
-- Frank
