Help With Print Functionality For Use Within A Projector
I am looking to add a print functionality to my projector movie. I have found several examples yet none have had the exact function i am needing. I will have several static pdfs (placed within a scrollpane component) that have print buttons on each. I am looking for the as3 or a road to the as3 for the functionality to print the entire pdf located within the scrollpane component. If placing the pdf within the scrollpane is impossible, can someone point me in the direction of a better method...
Thanks in advance...
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Posted on: 10-22-2008, 12:03 PM
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Simple Print Functionality.
Hi all
Above the main content of my app, I have a movie clip (for print confirmation) with nothing on frame one.
When 'enter' key is hit on the timeline, this print clip jumps to a flag called 'confirm' with some confirmation text, whereby if the user hits enter again, another clip is printed.
The trouble is, the print command is being enacted when the print mc (below) hits the frame with the following code.
So it's basically ignoring the getAscii command, and printing without waiting confirmation or cancellation.
I cleared the first listener here, hoping it would fix it, and created a new print listener, but i'm still having the same problem
Would luuurve a bit of help, .FLA is attached.
Cheers
Code:
stop();
// disable all other keys
Key.removeListener(_root);
// add a new listener specific to the print function
Key.addListener(_print);
//once the confirm text comes up, hitting 'enter' triggers the print
if (Key.getAscii() == 13) {
var pj = new PrintJob();
var success = pj.start();
if(success)
{
pj.addPage("_root.main_mc.loaded_mc", {xMin : 0, xMax: 300, yMin: 0, yMax: 500});
pj.send();
gotoAndPlay('confirmed')
}
delete pj;
//hitting escape cancells the print
}
if (Key.getAscii() == 27) {
gotoAndPlay('confirmed')
}
Simple Print Functionality
Hi all
Above the main content of my app, I have a movie clip (for print confirmation) with nothing on frame one.
When 'enter' key is hit on the timeline, this print clip jumps to a flag called 'confirm' with some confirmation text, whereby if the user hits enter again, another clip is printed.
The trouble is, the print command is being enacted when the print mc (below) hits the frame with the following code.
So it's basically ignoring the getAscii command, and printing without waiting confirmation or cancellation.
I cleared the first listener here, hoping it would fix it, and created a new print listener, but i'm still having the same problem
Would luuurve a bit of help, FLA is attached as a zip.
Need To Add Print And Save Functionality
I need to be able to save and print a certain section of the project once it's exported to swf. In other words, the user has an editable region and I want them to be able to save and print that region. How can I accomplish this? Thanks!
-SC
Simple Print Functionality
Hi all
I have a movie clip over the top of the main content, with nothing in frame one.
When enter is hit, this clip jumps to a flag called 'confirm' with some confirmation text, whereby if the user hits enter again, another clip is printed.
The trouble is, the print command is being enacted when the print mc (below) hits the frame with the following code.
So it's basically ignoring the getAscii command, and printing without waiting confirmation or cancellation.
I cleared the first listener here, hoping it would fix it, and created a new print listener, but i'm still having the same problem
Would luuurve a bit of help.
Code:
stop();
// disable all other keys
Key.removeListener(_root);
// add a new listener specific to the print function
Key.addListener(_print);
//once the confirm text comes up, hitting 'enter' triggers the print
if (Key.getAscii() == 13) {
var pj = new PrintJob();
var success = pj.start();
if(success)
{
pj.addPage("_root.main_mc.loaded_mc", {xMin : 0, xMax: 300, yMin: 0, yMax: 500});
pj.send();
gotoAndPlay('confirmed')
}
delete pj;
//hitting escape cancells the print
}
if (Key.getAscii() == 27) {
gotoAndPlay('confirmed')
}
Projector Functionality
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Greetings.
About a year ago we did an interactive sales piece in flash that loads and unloads different FLV files contained within SWFs for each section. It was recently brought to our attention that you can only watch each video one time on Windows based machines. Once you leave the section you are in and come back it will not play again. This was not an issue at all on Macs but for some reason the flash exe files were having this trouble.
I immediately figured that we had left out the unload movie command in the action script, and that it was only allowing it to load one time, and was technically still there when the viewer came back to it- hence not starting at the beginning and appearing missing. I was right. I went through then entire project and added unload movie commands for level 1 just ahead of the load movie command in each section, thus giving a blank slate to load from. It worked perfectly on the test PC so I figured the problem was solved and duplicated/labeled 15 disks.
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I always thought than an .exe file was generic and would play on all PCs Thats why we keep an old 98 machine in the office for testing, because it stands to reason that if something works smoothly on old equipment, newer machines should have no troubles at all.
Does anyone know if there is some kind of OS specific code to make this functionally active in XP? Is this a known issue when loading/unloading FLV files? I havent seen any mention of this elsewhere, so any ideas at all would be great.
Thanks!
-J
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Hi,
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Ta,
TTorx
Print-action In Projector...
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I'm making somekind of pesentation in Flash 5.
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And it's this print button that gives me gray hair:
I can't get the movie to print everything from one frame (all the loaded mC their one frame). As a mather of fact I always get a blanc page...
I can get it to print when I print from the separate MC (which contains the menu), but when I try it from the main MC (this means that the menu is a loaded MC...)
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Regards
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}
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on (release)
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greets,
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Also, when I move from frame 1 to 2 and back to frame 1,
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backand forth, and then give the print command both of the values are not printed (but they are
displayed). Where is the problem?
<as>
Code:
first frame:
stop();
letter = "B";
for(i = 1; i<5; i++){
this["item"+i+"_txt"].text = "value"+i;
trace(i);
}
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</as>
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is really hard, my brain is don now... im freeze
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on (release) {
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//var resultado = true;
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imp.addPage(_root, {}, {printAsBitmap:true});
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//delete imp;
}
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The code so far for the print-dialog looks like this...
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print(???);
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
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print(_level1, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
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}
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unloadMovieNum(8);
}
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print(_level4, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
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unloadMovieNum(8);
}
}
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If you could axamplafy with some code that would be grate since I'm not a used programmer.
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the print button uses
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the empty MC ("main") has a bounding box with a frame labelled #b.
the external swfs have #p on the frames i would like to print, and i even tried !#p on other frames to try to prevent it from asking if i want to print multiple pages.
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}
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Hi folks
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thanks!!!!!
Not Able To Print More Than 5 Pages In One Print Job.
I am not able to print more than 5 pages in one go. I want to print almost 12 pages in one print job. I am creating the movieclips of each page by adding the dynamic data in to it and store in an array. When all the movieclips created and stored in an array(pagesAry) then it call the following function to print those pages:
private function sendToPrinter():void
{
pj = new PrintJob();
try
{
if(pj.start())
{
for(var n:Number=0; n<pagesAry.length; n++)
{
pj.addPage(pagesAry[n]);
}
pj.send();
}
}catch(e:Error)
{
// handle error
}
}
Getting error: Print job canceled as it took more than 15 seconds to complete.
Has anyone a idea?
Thanks for answeres.
Edited: 12/19/2008 at 11:33:18 AM by atul_kamboj
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