Clint, This is all very nice. I received suggestions from others on using this approach. What I'm not familiar with is how do I call Flash's API from within my lzx code. Can you please elaborate more or point me in the right direction?
Thanks, Daniel On May 30, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Clint Dickson wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > We use the Flash API's to print from our application Gliffy > (http://www.gliffy.com). The reference material is here: > > http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/ > html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002608.html > > You can create a PrintJob class directly from your script code. > The only caveat is that the communication to the printer to change > the paper size or layout you want is not available from the Flash > API (at least we haven't figured it out). We use user messaging to > alleviate this. > > Hope this helps, > > -Clint > > > >> From: Daniel Salama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Laszlo <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Laszlo-user] Printing and others >> Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:24:39 -0400 >> >> I thought I would ask one more time. >> >> As I've read, the browser cannot print flash movies. Therefore, any >> printing support from within a flash movie has to be done within the >> flash itself. >> >> I have been reading through the docs and could not find any reference >> to printing support from within Laszlo apps. I searched through the >> wiki and found some references to a proposal to add printing support, >> but I don't think it's been done yet. >> >> However, I see that LaszloMail does offer printing of messages and I >> REALLY would like to know how that's done. We're working on >> delivering an app to a client which must have printing support. We >> took the risk of doing it with Laszlo as we believe it's a great >> platform, even though we are still novices at it. We figured there is >> no better way to learn than to be put in front of the fire :) >> >> The "others" part of the subject line refers to content returned by a >> back end application server. We are connecting our Laszlo app to a >> back-end via a REST-like API. However, there are some requests that >> the response from the server is either a CSV or XLS file or a PDF >> document. How can a Laszlo app handle these types of responses? At >> first, I thought of just launching an LzBrowser for the response and >> just let the browser handle the MIME type. Is that the correct >> approach? Is there a better one? >> >> Anyway, any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
