On 10/26/2011 08:38 AM, Mike Dee wrote: > I was thinking about something like that. In the posts about popup > windows this is seen as a negative because it is tricky to setup > communications between the main window and the popup. But there > really is no communication needed in this case. > > Do you see the popup window as a GWT window or just a straight HTML > window?
The latter. This is one of those cases where I think that using GWT to create the child window doesn't get you anything except a "problem solved!" endorphin rush. As I said earlier, the solution can be made arbitrarily complex, so I'm sure that someone will chime in with a reason to implement the popup using GWT methods. To follow-up on the CSS: I've noticed that when there's a reference to a CSS with media type "print", then FF opens a print dialog automatically. I think Chrome does this too. > > On Oct 26, 7:55 am, Jeffrey Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10/26/2011 1:02 AM, Mike Dee wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> I have an app that creates reports, which are basically HTML. The >>> reports need to be printed and that is what I'm trying to figure out. >> >>> I'm porting an older app - that is more of traditional web app. >>> Reports are displayed in a page - with a UI wrapped around them. When >>> a user wants to print a report, he clicks a "print" link, which pops >>> up a window with a printer friendly version (no UI elements). He can >>> then selects the browser's print command. Works nicely. >> >>> I'm trying to figure out how to do that in GWT. I can display a >>> report. Printing doesn't work well, because it prints all the UI >>> stuff too. >> >>> I've looked into separate popup windows. Most of the messages here >>> recommend against doing it. Instead they suggest using a Dialog box. >>> I've tried it and created a Dialog with simply an HTMLPanel. However, >>> selecting File->Print (in the browser) prints the entire page (the >>> entire window). >> >>> Any suggestions on a way to do this? >> >> Here's one idea I've implemented. It's amenable to arbitrary levels of >> complexity. >> >> Your UI posts a request to your server on user action (e.g. a button >> click event), and opens the result in a new window: >> <button type="submit"> >> <form action="printTheCurrentReport" _target="_blank" method="get"> >> <!-- Depending on how you manage sessions, you might want a session ID >> token in a hidden field --> >> </button> >> >> Reminder: you should have css for print media. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
