As our friend suggest before, You can communicate with Javascript and pass the job to js and you will print silence, dispatch the print silent to the js as you wish.
Two interesting sites to read it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21908/silent-printing-in-a-web-application http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-102128.html Regards Igor Costa www.igorcosta.org On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Jeremi Bergman <jere...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > It would be nice to be able to add an app as a "Trusted" application, > so that the application would have the option to print silently. > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Gregor > Kiddie" <gkid...@...> wrote: > > > > Yeah, The Flash Player doesn’t allow silent printing, as some wag > > would write an advertising swf which printed out their entire > promotional literature of 2000 pages on your printer every time you > checked your email… > > > > Nate is right, if you have JS code that works, call out to that, or > use some other means of interacting with the printer (we have a client > side DotNet component to handle our printing needs). > > > > > > > > Gk. > > > > Gregor Kiddie > > Senior Developer > > INPS > > > > Tel: 01382 564343 > > > > Registered address: The Bread Factory, 1a Broughton Street, London > SW8 3QJ > > > > Registered Number: 1788577 > > > > Registered in the UK > > > > Visit our Internet Web site at www.inps.co.uk > <blocked::http://www.inps.co.uk/> > > > > The information in this internet email is confidential and is > intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of > information in it by anyone else is not authorised. Any views or > opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of INPS or any of its affiliates. If you > are not the intended recipient please contact is.helpd...@... > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto: > flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] > On Behalf Of Nate Beck > > Sent: 29 January 2009 17:18 > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Silent Print from Flex on Kiosk > > > > > > > > Just a theory... but you might be able to use ExternalInterface to > call the same methods within user.js, and pass the content. Since > you're already got it working within Javascript. > > > > > > > > I wish I knew more about FlexPrintJob. > > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jeremi Bergman <jere...@... > <mailto:jere...@...> > wrote: > > > > I have a flex app that I need to print an image. I have Firefox Setup > > running the app. > > > > in user.js for FF i have: > > user_pref(†print.always_print_silent†,true); > > user_pref(†print.show_print_progress†,false); > > > > This works perfectly when using firefox's print functionality on any > > standard site. It prints directly to the default printer without any > > user interaction. > > > > Within my App I have: > > > > public static function printCoupon(obj:UIComponent):void { > > // Create an instance of the FlexPrintJob class. > > var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob(); > > > > // Start the print job. > > if (printJob.start() != true) return; > > > > // Add the object to print. Do not scale it. > > printJob.addObject(obj, FlexPrintJobScaleType.NONE); > > > > // Send the job to the printer. > > printJob.send(); > > } > > > > The UIComponent passed in is an Image. > > > > It prints the image, but it prompts me with the print diologe box. > > > > Any thoughts? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers, > > Nate > > ---------------------------------------- > > http://blog.natebeck.net <http://blog.natebeck.net> > > > > > -- ---------------------------- Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org
