I found this thread, maybe can help you. http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/eea48bafbe8eed63?pli=1
regards 2011/10/27 Mike Dee <mdichiapp...@gmail.com> > It seems easy to popup a new window, but I'm not sure how to stick the > HTML into it. If Window.open would return a reference to the window, > I could see a way to do it. > > Here is another idea. I can create another module to the GWT app. > It's sole purpose is to handle printing. > > The GWT app I'm working on is based on Activities and Places. The > layout is based on a DockLayoutPanel, which contains a bunch of UI > stuff (that appears when printing and is not wanted). The new module > will simply contain an HTML panel. > > So the benefits of a new module are: works in standard GWT environment > (without much hacking) and allows a different layout from main app. > > On Oct 26, 9:07 am, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- 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.
