It seems easy to popup a new window, but I'm not sure how to stick the HTML into it. If Window.open would return a reference to the window, I could see a way to do it.
Here is another idea. I can create another module to the GWT app. It's sole purpose is to handle printing. The GWT app I'm working on is based on Activities and Places. The layout is based on a DockLayoutPanel, which contains a bunch of UI stuff (that appears when printing and is not wanted). The new module will simply contain an HTML panel. So the benefits of a new module are: works in standard GWT environment (without much hacking) and allows a different layout from main app. On Oct 26, 9:07 am, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/26/2011 08:38 AM, Mike Dee wrote: > > > I was thinking about something like that. In the posts about popup > > windows this is seen as a negative because it is tricky to setup > > communications between the main window and the popup. But there > > really is no communication needed in this case. > > > Do you see the popup window as a GWT window or just a straight HTML > > window? > > The latter. This is one of those cases where I think that using GWT to > create the child window doesn't get you anything except a "problem > solved!" endorphin rush. As I said earlier, the solution can be made > arbitrarily complex, so I'm sure that someone will chime in with a > reason to implement the popup using GWT methods. > > To follow-up on the CSS: I've noticed that when there's a reference to a > CSS with media type "print", then FF opens a print dialog automatically. > I think Chrome does this too. > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 7:55 am, Jeffrey Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/26/2011 1:02 AM, Mike Dee wrote: > > >>> I have an app that creates reports, which are basically HTML. The > >>> reports need to be printed and that is what I'm trying to figure out. > > >>> I'm porting an older app - that is more of traditional web app. > >>> Reports are displayed in a page - with a UI wrapped around them. When > >>> a user wants to print a report, he clicks a "print" link, which pops > >>> up a window with a printer friendly version (no UI elements). He can > >>> then selects the browser's print command. Works nicely. > > >>> I'm trying to figure out how to do that in GWT. I can display a > >>> report. Printing doesn't work well, because it prints all the UI > >>> stuff too. > > >>> I've looked into separate popup windows. Most of the messages here > >>> recommend against doing it. Instead they suggest using a Dialog box. > >>> I've tried it and created a Dialog with simply an HTMLPanel. However, > >>> selecting File->Print (in the browser) prints the entire page (the > >>> entire window). > > >>> Any suggestions on a way to do this? > > >> Here's one idea I've implemented. It's amenable to arbitrary levels of > >> complexity. > > >> Your UI posts a request to your server on user action (e.g. a button > >> click event), and opens the result in a new window: > >> <button type="submit"> > >> <form action="printTheCurrentReport" _target="_blank" method="get"> > >> <!-- Depending on how you manage sessions, you might want a session ID > >> token in a hidden field --> > >> </button> > > >> Reminder: you should have css for print media. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
