sure, here's a simple example of printing a view:
<canvas width="400" height="400">
<view y="50" x="50" id="myview">
<view width="50" height="50" bgcolor="blue"/>
<view width="50" height="50" bgcolor="red"/>
<simplelayout axis="x"/>
</view>
<button x="50" y="150">Print It
<method event="onclick">
// create new PrintJob object, and the print dialog to
appear
var printJob = new PrintJob();
// this will wait for an OK from the dialog to print
if (printJob.start()) {
// get your view as a flash movie
var viewAsMovie = myview.__LZmovieClipRef;
//create a print area object, which will be relative
to myview (just showing the blue
// and red views)
var printArea = {xMin:0, xMax:100, yMin:0, yMax:50}
// add a page to the print job with the movie
printJob.addPage(eval(viewAsMovie), printArea);
// send it to the printer
printJob.send()
}
delete printJob;
</method>
</button>
</canvas>
- clint
>From: Daniel Salama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Clint Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Laszlo-user] Printing and others
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 12:33:25 -0400
>
>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
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>>
>>
>
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