Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
Very cool idea Haikal! Certainly seems the best option for text printing, I'm going to try it one day. thanks, -Meinte On 8/21/06, Haikal Saadh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My approach to printing oodles of multiline text is to let the browser do it: * When the print button is pressed, save the contents of the text field to a Local Shared Object * Open up an empty HTML page, which has as invisible flash movie which can then: o Read that shared object. o Pass the data that needs to be printed to a JS function which... o ...uses DOM to inject that data onto the page. Simple, and quite elegant, if I say so my self. I've done this before for arrays of objects, and it has worked a treat. The Flash/Javascript bridge comes in handy here as well. Peter O'Brien wrote: I have the same problem as the original poster. I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or Hans if you're there I would love to see some code. What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary according to screen resolution? How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it is completely full? Cheers, Pete -- Haikal Saadh Applications Programmer ICT Resources, TALSS QUT Kelvin Grove ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
Hey guys thanks for the code and input.
The route I think I'm taking because it's html text and formatted, is to
keep trimming at br's and checking if page is not too high.
The page to print symbol I'm using has an aspect ratio for an A4 page (1:
1.414) and one big html text field (with 20px blank padding around it)
Here's the code (which works) so far:
private function processPagesToPrint():Void
{
_pagesToPrint=[];
_excessText=entireHtmlFormattedTextContent;// can be a few lines or
pages
constructPage();
}
private function constructPage():Void
{
var pageToPrint=this.attachMovie
('pageToPrint_justText','p'+(_pagesToPrint.length+1),getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:720});
_pagesToPrint.push(pageToPrint);
var tf:TextField=pageToPrint.tf;
tf.styleSheet=STYLESHEET;
tf.htmlText=_excessText;
// if the page is not too high without having to trim we're good to
go
if(tf.textHeight=tf._height){
trace('pages processed, and number to print
='+_pagesToPrint.length);
// display this info to user so they know before they hit print
}
// otherwise we'll trim and then construct another page
else{
_excessText=;
trimPage(tf);
}
}
private function trimPage(tf:TextField):Void
{
// cut the text after the last 'br'
var str:String=tf.htmlText;
var lastBr=str.lastIndexOf('br');
tf.htmlText=str.substring(0,lastBr);
_excessText=str.substring(lastBr,str.length)+_excessText;
// if page is trimmed enough
if(tf.textHeight=tf._height){
constructPage();
}
// otherwise keep trimmin
else{
trimPage(tf);
}
}
private function printPages():Void
{
_printJob=new PrintJob();
if(_printJob.start()){
var len=_pagesToPrint.length;
for(var i=0;ilen;i++){
_printJob.addPage(_pagesToPrint[i]);
}
_printJob.send();
}
}
On 8/18/06, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know
it
is completely full?
Here's a revised version using a word array. But as I said, including
formatting would be more difficult and significantly slower. I tend to
agree
with Meinte that in this case you're better off using scrolling (although
the function below may be of interest in any case)
function fillField(fld:TextField, txt:Array, curr:String) {
if (curr == undefined) {
curr = ;
}
var len:Number = txt.length;
if (len == 0) {
} else if (len == 1) {
fld.text = curr + txt[0];
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fld.text = curr;
}
} else {
var half:Array = txt.slice(0, len / 2);
fld.text = curr + half.join( );
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fillField(fld, half, curr);
} else {
fillField(fld, txt.slice(len / 2), fld.text +
);
}
}
}
I tested it with
fillField(test, src.text.split( ));
Danny
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Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
My approach to printing oodles of multiline text is to let the browser do it: * When the print button is pressed, save the contents of the text field to a Local Shared Object * Open up an empty HTML page, which has as invisible flash movie which can then: o Read that shared object. o Pass the data that needs to be printed to a JS function which... o ...uses DOM to inject that data onto the page. Simple, and quite elegant, if I say so my self. I've done this before for arrays of objects, and it has worked a treat. The Flash/Javascript bridge comes in handy here as well. Peter O'Brien wrote: I have the same problem as the original poster. I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or Hans if you're there I would love to see some code. What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary according to screen resolution? How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it is completely full? Cheers, Pete -- Haikal Saadh Applications Programmer ICT Resources, TALSS QUT Kelvin Grove ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
I have the same problem as the original poster. I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or Hans if you're there I would love to see some code. What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary according to screen resolution? How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it is completely full? Cheers, Pete On 4/24/06, Van De Velde Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You get your text from the textarea and you do this: Dynamically attach a movieclip from the library with a preformatted textfield that exactly fits an A4 page (set movieclip to _visible = false to do it invisibly) and fill the textfield up with the text from your textarea until the textfield is full. Then you add to movieclip to the printjob and push the reference to the movieclip to an array. Cut the remaining text and fill up the next one... Create a loop of this to write out all your text. After all text is written out, you execute the printjob and remove all the movieclips with removeMovieClip by looping the array of movieclips. NOTE : this is easier than it seems. Been there, done that, Regards, Hans. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of julian atienza Sent: maandag 24 april 2006 17:26 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES Hi. I wanted to Print contents of a long Scrollable textArea with Flash, but it's a kind of nightmare. I tried to made a class to manage Printing (with a PrintJob object inside) , and one empty swf that Creates Dynamically the TextArea and the Class to ManagePrinting, who feeds textArea with contents and scroll TextArea adding page by page contents. Problems: - The Scrolled area in Screen doesn't appeared to be the same than the printable area (each Page, i see repeated contents... why? i just don't know . IT's like the scroll doesn't scroll propertly). - Of course, sometimes, appeared incomplete text (with a cut at the middle) because i don't know any mechanism to avoid it at the moment. Somebody have any idea - the contents to print will be sometimes of 5 or 6 pages DIN A-4 thanks in advance ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
Yeah, I asked this question on Flexcoders but got no answer at all. Any code would be greatly appreciated :) The funny thing is this printing a block of multipage text seems like such a basic thing but there are no examples in the docs and it seems as thought this issue was never considered as a basic thing people would need to do. Regards, Hank On 8/18/06, Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem as the original poster. I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or Hans if you're there I would love to see some code. What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary according to screen resolution? How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it is completely full? Cheers, Pete On 4/24/06, Van De Velde Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You get your text from the textarea and you do this: Dynamically attach a movieclip from the library with a preformatted textfield that exactly fits an A4 page (set movieclip to _visible = false to do it invisibly) and fill the textfield up with the text from your textarea until the textfield is full. Then you add to movieclip to the printjob and push the reference to the movieclip to an array. Cut the remaining text and fill up the next one... Create a loop of this to write out all your text. After all text is written out, you execute the printjob and remove all the movieclips with removeMovieClip by looping the array of movieclips. NOTE : this is easier than it seems. Been there, done that, Regards, Hans. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of julian atienza Sent: maandag 24 april 2006 17:26 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES Hi. I wanted to Print contents of a long Scrollable textArea with Flash, but it's a kind of nightmare. I tried to made a class to manage Printing (with a PrintJob object inside) , and one empty swf that Creates Dynamically the TextArea and the Class to ManagePrinting, who feeds textArea with contents and scroll TextArea adding page by page contents. Problems: - The Scrolled area in Screen doesn't appeared to be the same than the printable area (each Page, i see repeated contents... why? i just don't know . IT's like the scroll doesn't scroll propertly). - Of course, sometimes, appeared incomplete text (with a cut at the middle) because i don't know any mechanism to avoid it at the moment. Somebody have any idea - the contents to print will be sometimes of 5 or 6 pages DIN A-4 thanks in advance ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
my solution is scrolling the text and printing as you go, here's the
function.
(beware though, it's been ages since writing this, it works tho)
function buildPrinter() {
_root.print.onPress = function() {
var p_length = Math.round(Math.floor
(parseInt(_root.test.maxscroll)/_root.line_length));
_root.pj = new PrintJob();
if (_root.pj.start()) {
//_root.printer.pj=pj;
for (var i = 0; i=p_length; i++) {
_root.test.scroll = i*_root.line_length;
_root.pj.addPage(_root.test);
}
var empty =
((p_length+1)*_root.line_length)-_root.test.maxscroll;
for (var i = 0; iempty; i++) {
_root.test.text = _root.test.text+\n;
}
_root.test.scroll = _root.test.maxscroll;
_root.pj.addPage(_root.test);
_root.pj.send();
}
delete _root.pj;
};
}
On 8/18/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I asked this question on Flexcoders but got no answer at all.
Any code would be greatly appreciated :)
The funny thing is this printing a block of multipage text seems like
such a basic thing but there are no examples in the docs and it seems
as thought this issue was never considered as a basic thing people
would need to do.
Regards,
Hank
On 8/18/06, Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same problem as the original poster.
I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or
Hans if you're there I would love to see some code.
What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary
according
to screen resolution?
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know
it
is completely full?
Cheers,
Pete
On 4/24/06, Van De Velde Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You get your text from the textarea and you do this:
Dynamically attach a movieclip from the library with a preformatted
textfield that exactly fits an A4 page (set movieclip to _visible =
false
to
do it invisibly)
and fill the textfield up with the text from your textarea until the
textfield is full.
Then you add to movieclip to the printjob and push the reference to
the
movieclip to an array.
Cut the remaining text and fill up the next one...
Create a loop of this to write out all your text.
After all text is written out, you execute the printjob and remove all
the movieclips with removeMovieClip by looping the array of
movieclips.
NOTE : this is easier than it seems.
Been there, done that,
Regards,
Hans.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of julian
atienza
Sent: maandag 24 april 2006 17:26
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several
PAGES
Hi.
I wanted to Print contents of a long Scrollable textArea with Flash,
but
it's a kind of nightmare.
I tried to made a class to manage Printing (with a PrintJob object
inside)
,
and one empty swf that Creates Dynamically the TextArea and the Class
to
ManagePrinting, who feeds textArea with contents and scroll TextArea
adding
page by page contents.
Problems:
- The Scrolled area in Screen doesn't appeared to be the same than the
printable area (each Page, i see repeated contents... why? i just
don't
know
. IT's like the scroll doesn't scroll propertly).
- Of course, sometimes, appeared incomplete text (with a cut at the
middle)
because i don't know any mechanism to avoid it at the moment.
Somebody have any idea - the contents to print will be sometimes of 5
or
6
pages DIN A-4
thanks in advance
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Re: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
_root.test is the textfield, _root.line_length is the lines fitting on one
page.
good luck!
-Meinte
On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my solution is scrolling the text and printing as you go, here's the
function.
(beware though, it's been ages since writing this, it works tho)
function buildPrinter() {
_root.print.onPress = function() {
var p_length = Math.round(Math.floor
(parseInt(_root.test.maxscroll)/_root.line_length));
_root.pj = new PrintJob();
if (_root.pj.start()) {
//_root.printer.pj=pj;
for (var i = 0; i=p_length; i++) {
_root.test.scroll = i*_root.line_length;
_root.pj.addPage(_root.test);
}
var empty =
((p_length+1)*_root.line_length)-_root.test.maxscroll;
for (var i = 0; iempty; i++) {
_root.test.text = _root.test.text+\n;
}
_root.test.scroll = _root.test.maxscroll;
_root.pj.addPage(_root.test);
_root.pj.send();
}
delete _root.pj;
};
}
On 8/18/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I asked this question on Flexcoders but got no answer at all.
Any code would be greatly appreciated :)
The funny thing is this printing a block of multipage text seems like
such a basic thing but there are no examples in the docs and it seems
as thought this issue was never considered as a basic thing people
would need to do.
Regards,
Hank
On 8/18/06, Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same problem as the original poster.
I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans,
or
Hans if you're there I would love to see some code.
What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it vary
according
to screen resolution?
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you
know it
is completely full?
Cheers,
Pete
On 4/24/06, Van De Velde Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You get your text from the textarea and you do this:
Dynamically attach a movieclip from the library with a preformatted
textfield that exactly fits an A4 page (set movieclip to _visible =
false
to
do it invisibly)
and fill the textfield up with the text from your textarea until the
textfield is full.
Then you add to movieclip to the printjob and push the reference to
the
movieclip to an array.
Cut the remaining text and fill up the next one...
Create a loop of this to write out all your text.
After all text is written out, you execute the printjob and remove
all
the movieclips with removeMovieClip by looping the array of
movieclips.
NOTE : this is easier than it seems.
Been there, done that,
Regards,
Hans.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of
julian
atienza
Sent: maandag 24 april 2006 17:26
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with
several
PAGES
Hi.
I wanted to Print contents of a long Scrollable textArea with
Flash, but
it's a kind of nightmare.
I tried to made a class to manage Printing (with a PrintJob object
inside)
,
and one empty swf that Creates Dynamically the TextArea and the
Class to
ManagePrinting, who feeds textArea with contents and scroll TextArea
adding
page by page contents.
Problems:
- The Scrolled area in Screen doesn't appeared to be the same than
the
printable area (each Page, i see repeated contents... why? i just
don't
know
. IT's like the scroll doesn't scroll propertly).
- Of course, sometimes, appeared incomplete text (with a cut at the
middle)
because i don't know any mechanism to avoid it at the moment.
Somebody have any idea - the contents to print will be sometimes of
5 or
6
pages DIN A-4
thanks in advance
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I have the same problem as the original poster.
I don't suppose anyone can provide more info as a solution than Hans, or
Hans if you're there I would love to see some code.
What are flash mc dimensions to match an A4 page? Doesn't it
vary according
to screen resolution?
As long as it's the right aspect ratio (1:1.414), it should scale up
correctly
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it
is completely full?
It depends on how much you know about the contents. If you know the text is
all of a single line-height and not wrapping, then you can do it very
quickly. If you don't know any of these things then you have to do it by
trial and error (no equivalent in Flash of Director's lovely locToCharPos
function, unfortunately). A simple and quick recursive method is:
function fillField(fld:TextField, txt:String, curr:String) {
if (curr == undefined) {
curr = ;
}
var len:Number = txt.length;
if (len == 0) {
} else if (len == 1) {
fld.text = curr + txt;
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fld.text = curr;
}
} else {
var half:String = txt.substr(0, len / 2);
fld.text = curr + half;
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fillField(fld, half, curr);
} else {
fillField(fld, txt.substr(len / 2), curr + half);
}
}
}
However, this literally fills the field as far as it will go, up to the very
last letter; and of course it doesn't respect formatting. The same principle
can be applied with formatting, but it gets more complicated. To make it
respect word breaks, it would probably be simplest to convert the text to an
array of words.
Danny
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RE: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
How can you efficiently fill a textfield to the point in which you know it
is completely full?
Here's a revised version using a word array. But as I said, including
formatting would be more difficult and significantly slower. I tend to agree
with Meinte that in this case you're better off using scrolling (although
the function below may be of interest in any case)
function fillField(fld:TextField, txt:Array, curr:String) {
if (curr == undefined) {
curr = ;
}
var len:Number = txt.length;
if (len == 0) {
} else if (len == 1) {
fld.text = curr + txt[0];
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fld.text = curr;
}
} else {
var half:Array = txt.slice(0, len / 2);
fld.text = curr + half.join( );
if (fld.textHeight fld._height) {
fillField(fld, half, curr);
} else {
fillField(fld, txt.slice(len / 2), fld.text + );
}
}
}
I tested it with
fillField(test, src.text.split( ));
Danny
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RE: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES
You get your text from the textarea and you do this: Dynamically attach a movieclip from the library with a preformatted textfield that exactly fits an A4 page (set movieclip to _visible = false to do it invisibly) and fill the textfield up with the text from your textarea until the textfield is full. Then you add to movieclip to the printjob and push the reference to the movieclip to an array. Cut the remaining text and fill up the next one... Create a loop of this to write out all your text. After all text is written out, you execute the printjob and remove all the movieclips with removeMovieClip by looping the array of movieclips. NOTE : this is easier than it seems. Been there, done that, Regards, Hans. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of julian atienza Sent: maandag 24 april 2006 17:26 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] PRINTJOB HELL, PRINTJOB NIGHTMARE with several PAGES Hi. I wanted to Print contents of a long Scrollable textArea with Flash, but it's a kind of nightmare. I tried to made a class to manage Printing (with a PrintJob object inside) , and one empty swf that Creates Dynamically the TextArea and the Class to ManagePrinting, who feeds textArea with contents and scroll TextArea adding page by page contents. Problems: - The Scrolled area in Screen doesn't appeared to be the same than the printable area (each Page, i see repeated contents... why? i just don't know . IT's like the scroll doesn't scroll propertly). - Of course, sometimes, appeared incomplete text (with a cut at the middle) because i don't know any mechanism to avoid it at the moment. Somebody have any idea - the contents to print will be sometimes of 5 or 6 pages DIN A-4 thanks in advance ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
