I'm sorry that you find this so frustrating. We'd love to have a component for everything, but it just isn't possible. I just wanted to make sure you and your client had considered the possibility of new UI and formats. Many clients don't want to change and that is fine. As I explained in my last response, it is possible that the PrintDataGrid philosophy could be applied to your VBox. Simply size the VBox to the size of the page, submit a print page, scroll some more, submit the next print page. The area of difficulty is in the page break. If you know the linespacing of the report you can probably figure out how to not get half-lines, etc. Can you produce a small .mxml file with a VBox that contains a sample report? Then we can understand better what your situation is and can hopefully provide more efficient responses. -Alex
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dmiramontesval Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcomponents] Re: Printig multipage output Well i do understand all that, but my client wants a report with an specific format, i could use PrintDataGrid but i need to convince them, after all the client is who pays my bills. Besides they already purchased Flex so what should i say to them? That the report they want can't be done with that format because the product they purchased only allows DataGrid controls to be printed properly? Don't think so man. Do we need to submit any kind of petition in order to get this printing support in a future release? After all they already paid for this product. I think you should consider this, because it is very frustating that Flex has such a limitation of what you can print, people won't be printing datagridsd forever man. I understand it is difficult to do this, i'll try to figure out a way to handle this multipage thing with a VBox, if i succeed i'll let you know If you have any general ideas on how to handle this, where i could start, let me know Thanks, hope you don't get the feeling i am taking it on you --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry you think it is lame. The reason there is a PrintDataGrid is > because we know what the content will look like well enough to know how > to paginate it. A VBox is much more general, and we haven't had the > time to figure out what the right API would be to allow you to control > page breaks. Once you get this working, you may be able to help provide > some feedback as to what kinds of pagination control you and others > might need, or you will end up with a reusable component that others can > take advantage of. > > The basic principle in the PrintDataGrid is to hide its scrollbars, > figure out how much it should display on the current page, fire off a > printed page, scroll some more data in and repeat until done. You might > do something similar to your VBox, it would depend on what components > are in the VBox and how you want them to look. > > One of the reasons I believe we haven't heard many requests for this is > that often, folks design their UI to have multiple screens using one of > our navigators like Accordion or TabNavigator which can often provide an > easier way for the user to view the report on-screen instead of having > to scroll through many pages. Then printing is a matter of printing > each of those screens. > > If your report has many lines of data, it would seem like you could > still use a PrintDataGrid. Simply make an array of each line of data, > put it in the PDG with one column, hide the header and print it. > > -Alex > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of dmiramontesval > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:15 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcomponents] Re: Printig multipage output > > > > I am printing a VBox which is a report, it contains information > concerning an accounting report. > > I need to print this in multiple pages but there's no way to do it, > any ideas? any custom component which could handle multiple page format? > > It is pretty lame that i can only print DataGrid in multiple pages > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <aharui@> > wrote: > > > > Sorry, there is no other multipage print components available. What > are > > you printing? Pages of text should be relatively easy. > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of dmiramontesval > > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:07 PM > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [flexcomponents] Printig multipage output > > > > > > > > I need to print a component which has a lot of information and which > > doesn't fit on a single page, so i need multiple pages to print it. > > Unfortunately Flex doesn't provide any support for this UNLESS you use > > PrintDataGrid, which is useless to me because the application i am > > trying to print doesn't have ANY PrintDataGrid control. > > > > So the big question is how to handle multipage when printing something > > that IS NOT a PrintDataGrid. > > > > Any ideas? any custom components that implement this functionality? > > any solution? > > > > Thanks > > >
