Sorry, I'm new to printing so none of that made much sense... >>You can almost always make a DG look like a List by having one column with >>the headers invisible. So, start with temporarily replacing your list with a >>single column DG, work out the kinks, then shovel it off to PDG to print. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how could that work? If I replace my current List with a DG and get it to work the same as now, that's fine (although I'd have to rework a bunch of code)... but not sure I see the point. When I "shovel it off" to a PrintDG I'm just sending the dataprovider to the PrintDG, so it's still going to print too many columns all squeezed. Unless... are you suggesting I use a DG with a custom rendered single cell for normal display, then use the DG's custom renderer in the PrintDG? So build a custom renderer that work in either so it can be shared? Darren
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren HouleSent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:34 AMTo: Flexcoders GroupSubject: [flexcoders] Question about printing I haven't played with printing much, but I've been looking and haven't been able to find a good answer to this anywhere yet... This might be an oversimplification, but apparently when it comes to the FlexPrintJob you can either print what's displayed (visible) in your app, or else employ the PrintDataGrid which allows you to print things that are not necessarily displayed visually anywhere. My problem is that I have a List component that uses a custom rederer, and it typically displays hundreds of items, with less than ten visible on the screen at any one time. The reason I have a custom renderer is because there's too much data for a DataGrid (would result in too many unusably thin columns.) When I try to print the List component I only get the few that are visible on the screen... when I use the List's dataprovider in a PrintDataGrid there's too many columns and the data is unreadable. But... when my customer hits ! print, they want a prinout of all the items in the List, not just what's visible. My question is this... can I use a custom renderer in a PrintDataGrid? Or is there a way to loop through the List's dataprovider, make each item somehow "visible" so it can be added to the printjob? My first pref would be to create a custom renderer for a PrintDataGrid so that I can control output format better than a datagrid, have all items "visible" to the printjob even though they're not "visible" to the user, use print paging, etc. but I can't seem to find any good documentation on that anywhere. There's a tidbit here: http://www.nabble.com/Can-Flex-really-handle-complex-printing--td15744019.html but I'm curious if this is recommended, or if there's a happier place I could go :-) ThanksDarren
