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Printing Dynamic Content
I was wondering how I could do this. I have a stage onto which the user can drag icons and add info, the number of icons they can drag and the amount of info they can write is infinite.

Now I want to be able to print a summary of that information ie take all that info put it in another place where the user can view it and print it.

I guess I will need some kind of dynamic text building thingie to build the summary, but how would one go about printing it, when you can't say the extent of what you need to print.

is there a way or am I better off using an external app to get the variables out of flash? (its not web based though!)

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Printing Dynamic Content
Hi everyone, i have been working on this application which loads a lot of external swf files, scales them and then i needed user to print each swf on a separate page. To do this, i created a new movieclip and created blank keyframes in it and on every frame i wrote "loadmovie" command to load these swf files.

Everything worked fine until i got to printing. I had used printjobclass to create a job and print pages/frames as per user selection. But no matter what i do it only prints one page, the last frame of that movieclip. Code is as below :

var pj = new PrintJob();
var success = pj.start();
if(success)
{
for(var i=1;i<=mpages;i++)
{
pj.addPage("mc_print",{xMin:0,xMax:612,yMin:0,yMax :792},{printAsBitmap:false},i);
}
pj.send();
}
delete pj;

I was just wondering if any of you guys have worked on something similar encountered the same issue and found a way to get it working.

Any help on this is highly appreciated.

rohit

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Printing A Clip Of Dynamic Content...
I've got an array of objects... think shopping cart...

I'm able to aggregate all of the items into a single clip for display on screen... think "view basket contents". This works fine.

But I cannot get it to print.

What happens is the clip prints just fine except none of my "items" show up... just an empty cart. They're in the clip... I can see them on screen, but they don't print.

The print function seems to print the clip in its "frame 1" state and none of the dynamic content shows up.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Printing The Content Of A Dynamic Text Box
I need a button on my movie that can print the comtent only of a dynamic text box. I use MX.. Can any one help. It would be much appriciated..

Thanks

Nathan

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Printing Dynamic Textfield Content
There have been some topics with this title but none of them seems to solve the problem of printing the dynamic text content which is by the way also a scrollable text. I manage to print only what is seen but not the whole text.

Is there anyone who could help. I am attaching my fla which is used only for testing purposes.

Thank you in advance

http://www.galahala.com/print2.zip

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Printing Dynamic Text Field Content...
blah... bluh... I realy hava a huge problem!

I'm working on of the most important projects in my life! that's school web site www.aat-edu.org - I did all the design and little bit of flash... but my client wants a print button, that will print that dumb text...

I have a dynamic text field, text is loaded from the external text file...

it looks like this:

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables("news.txt", this);
}
onClipEvent (data) {
_root.scrolltxt.htmlText = this.MyText;
}

and now, I have to make a button that will print the content of the text file...
I drafted this code:

ActionScript Code:
on (release) {
print(_root.scrolltxt.htmlText,"bframe");
}

but the dumb button prints the whole page... I mean with all those buttons, but it is supposed to print only the content of the dynamic text field!

would be enormously glad if someone could help me out with this...

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Trouble Printing Dynamic Content In Flash 8
Hi. I am having problems trying to print dynamic quiz results. I can get the entire page to print but not the dynamic content. I have included a link to where the fla is loaded....if you skip to question 7 submit an answer and then you will be to frame 70 with the output. That is the frame I am having troubles with.

Thank you Laura

http://www.awenarts.com/printFlashHelp.zip

Edited: 05/30/2007 at 10:48:16 PM by lauratritz

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Printing Content Of Scrollpane
Hi,

I have not found the relevant info in trying to print the content of a scrollpane. There is a JPEG converted into a clip. I have tried to use the #p on the frame I want to be printed, then I have placed a button on the main timeline targeting the "bmovie". when I print, I get an image of the interface and my scroll pane ..... How do u only print the content of the ScrollPane?

Many thanks,

Luke

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Printing Scroller Content - Flash 5
I have a swf movie that has many buttons. Each button calls another swf into a level, each swf called into a level has a scroller that scrolls text. I have a button in the scroller that the user can click on to print the text. I was wondering how I can make this process more user-friendly but somehow using the browser print button. I thought of 2 ways:
[1] use CSS to print a message that says to use the flash print button if you want to print the material. I thought this would tick some off cause they pretty much would be wasting the trees thinking they are getting the material but intead this message.

OR

[2]Is there some way to have one of the called swf's that contain a scroll and text to communicate with CSS to determine which text to print, so when the user uses the browser print button, it prints the text which resembles the text in the scroller. Is this possible... what are my possibilities?

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Problem - Printing Scrollpane Content
hi,

I am trying to create a button that print the full content of a movieclip dynamically loaded inside a scrollpane.

the problem is: it only prints the part showing in the scrollpane.

Can anyone help me !?

Fanx!!

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Need Urgent Help : Printing Hiden Content Of ScrollPane
Hi all,

I am in middle of a CD catalog. I am having problem with showing product leaflet which are in .pdf format. First of all i used getUrl method but it brings browser with it which is not ideal. Then i endup with the .jpg files to show in scrollPane. But the problem is when i print the content(.jpg) of scrollPane it just print what is visible on screen. But i want to print what is beyond the visible part.

Please help me out. Thanx in advance.

Kishan

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Need Urgent Help : Printing Hiden Content Of ScrollPane
Thanx for your reply. I am using the below code on print button :

on (release) {
var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob(); // Never create a var name that is the same as the class name
var bSuccess:Boolean = pj.start();

if(bSuccess){
trace("myscroll.content = " + myscroll.content);
pj.addPage(myscroll.content,{xMin:0, xMax:574, yMin:0, yMax:757});

/* var temp = _level0.scrollPane.spContentHolder._y;
_level0.myscroll.spContentHolder._y = -442;
pj.addPage(0);
// position scrollPane content back to it's starting vertical position
_level0.myscroll.spContentHolder._y = temp;*/

pj.send();
delete pj
}
}

One more thing, My prints are exceeding A4 width size. I know its possible to print within limits.. But dont know how.

Do we have any way to open pdf files????

Thanx again in advance

Kishan

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[F8] Printing Content Of Embedded Swf From Main Environment Swf
I am using Flash Professional 8 to develop, and player 8 to view published swf files in an html window. I have looked through the posts, but nothing seems to apply.

OVERVIEW:
I have a main environment which contains a graphical banner, back and next arrows, and a 'Print' popup containing a number of buttons with print code on them. The main environment loads each actual screen of content from separate swf files (path is: screens/screen1.swf).

The following code (on the first frame of main timeline) worked when everything was in one fla file, but no matter what I try, I can't get the correct syntax to work when the movie is in another swf file:
Key.addListener(myListener);

_global.p_sec_1 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen1", "psection1",100);
_global.p_sec_2 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen2","psection2", 101);
_global.p_sec_3 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen3","psection3", 102);

_root.psection1._visible = false;
_root.psection2._visible= false;
_root.psection3._visible= false;
This code was on the button to call the print function:
on (release) {
printAsBitmap("_root.psection1", "bmovie");
}

MY PROBLEM:
I can't figure out the action script code needed to direct the code (located on the print button in the environment) to print the movie clip when it is in an embedded swf.

I would really appreciate it if anyone knows what I would need to replace '_root' with. I have tried the path 'screens/screen1.swf' and a few other things, but am stuck.

Signed, an action script novice.

Thanks

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Printing Content Of Embedded Swf From Main Environment Swf
I am using Flash Professional 8 to develop, and player 8 to view published swf files in an html window. I have looked through the posts, but nothing seems to apply.

OVERVIEW:
I have a main environment which contains a graphical banner, back and next arrows, and a 'Print' popup containing a number of buttons with print code on them. The main environment loads each actual screen of content from separate swf files (path is: screens/screen1.swf).

The following code (on the first frame of main timeline) worked when everything was in one fla file, but no matter what I try, I can't get the correct syntax to work when the movie is in another swf file:

Key.addListener(myListener);

_global.p_sec_1 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen1", "psection1",100);
_global.p_sec_2 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen2","psection2", 101);
_global.p_sec_3 = _root.attachMovie("printable_screen3","psection3", 102);

_root.psection1._visible = false;
_root.psection2._visible= false;
_root.psection3._visible= false;

This code was on the button to call the print function:

on (release) {
printAsBitmap("_root.psection1", "bmovie");
}

MY PROBLEM:
I can't figure out the action script code needed to direct the code (located on the print button in the environment) to print the movie clip when it is in an embedded swf.

I would really appreciate it if anyone knows what I would need to replace '_root' with. I have tried the path 'screens/screen1.swf' and a few other things, but am stuck.

Signed, an action script novice.

Thanks

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Scaling Sprite For Printing Doesn't Scale Content
Need help with this one!

I have a Flash docutment that is 950 x 650. I want to add a "print" button that will automatically scale it to fit uncropped on an 8.5" x 11" page (Landscape).
Problem is, although the sprite DOES scale to fit the page, the content doesn't scale but rather just ends up being cropped. It's like my sprite is a window looking through to my image. I change the size of the window but the image behind it remains the same size.

Here's the code:

Thanks!
Phalconheart

Attach Code

btn_print.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, printAll);

function printAll(myevent:MouseEvent):void {
var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
var printSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
printSprite.addChild(stage);
printSprite.scaleX = .8;
printSprite.scaleY = .8;
var myOptions:PrintJobOptions = new PrintJobOptions();
myOptions.printAsBitmap = true;
var myPrintArea:Rectangle = new Rectangle (0,0,950,650);
myPrintJob.start();
myPrintJob.addPage(printSprite, myPrintArea, myOptions);
myPrintJob.send();
}

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Dynamic Mask Over Dynamic Content Loses Content
I have come across a problem that so far I have no solutions for at all. I have a movieclip which has a dynamic jpeg loaded into it, then the movieclip is being masked. The issue is I need to have the mask that is on top of the movieclip change, but once I make any change to the mask I completely lose the dynamic jpeg that was loaded into the masked movieclip. Is there a way around this at all?

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Dynamic Content Presented Over All Normal Content
I have a bunch of generated movie clips that I am creating using the duplicate movie clip function.

The problem I am having is the generated clips are covering up content. Are there any options....(I really don't feel like creating both layer a and b dynamically.)

this is how the movie is publishing:

-----layer A----- (generated content)
-----layer B----- (normal non-generated content)
-----layer C----- (normal non-generated content)

this is how i want the movie to publish:

-----layer A----- (normal non-generated content)
-----layer B----- (generated content)
-----layer C----- (normal non-generated content)

thanks for your help,
Reid

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Dynamic Text : Dynamic Height (depending On Content)
Hi people.

Im working on a website, and in some part there is a dynamic text space that sets its width depending on the resolution.

But well, I want the text to be sitting downside of my webpage. For this (I guess) I need to set the height of the space to its contents, so that I can use the textspace height as a unit, for putting it to the ground
(myTextSpace.y=stage.StageHeight - myTestSpace.height)

But well, I do not know, if there is any way to set the textspace height to its contents.

I hope I'm clear, thank you.

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Dynamic Printing
How do I get all of the text in a scrollable dynamic text box to print.

Currently i have a print button with the following code:
ActionScript Code:
on (release) {
var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
var result:Boolean = myPrintJob.start();
if (result) {
myPrintJob.addPage("txt");
myPrintJob.send();
delete myPrintJob;
} else {
//No printer, or canceled print
}
}

The problem is that it only prints the text that is visible to the user instead of ALL of the text.

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Printing Dynamic Text
Hi!

I'm having little trouble printing a string variable from Flash. Can someone help me.

Since there is no direct way, I loaded it into a dynamic text field inside an MC. Both the "Print" and "PrintAsBitmap", when used prints all other objects in that MC except the dynamic text field !!

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Downloading And Printing A Dynamic JPG
I started an earlier thread about dynamically loading a JPEG into an mc named 'holder'. I have this done now but need to do more with it once it is loaded. Firstly the user will need to be able to download the image by clicking on a button. The finished movie is to go onto a CD-ROM and so the user will need to be able to do this within a self-contained Flash Player and not a browser.

Is this possible? If so what code do I need to use? If not can it be done if the movie is played in a browser?

Secondly, the JPGs that are loaded into the mc need to be printed by the user. I have set it up so that when a button is clicked the image prints. The JPGs will vary in size and we want them to print at their actual size. The problem at present is that when the user presses the Print button, the JPG prints resized to fit the A4 paper.

On the Print button I have this code:

------------------------------------------------
on (release) {
printAsBitmap("holder", "bmovie");
}
------------------------------------------------

Within the holder mc there are 2 layers. The first layer has one frame with a stop action and a label "#p". The second layer has 2 frames, the first is empty and the second has a label "#b" and a bounding box box drawn in it. I have tried playing around with different settings, but can't get it right. How do I allow the user to print the JPEGs at their actual size?

TIA,

Adrian

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Printing Dynamic Text
Hi,

Would anyone be able to offer some advice on how to print some dynamic text in MX?

Here's the details:

> A movie clip on the main timeline
> Within this movie clip there's a dynamic text field with its content called from an external file
> This content is scrollable (as it is too big to all fit within the text field).

I've got a print button that targets the movie clip the same size as the dynamic text box in it. However, I ca only print what's visible on-screen in the movie clip.

Is there any way I can print the whole of the dynamic text file, even though parts of it are off screen waiting to be scrolled.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

denitu

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Dynamic Image Printing
I have a template which loads various dynamic data ... including an image, the image being the heaviest part loads last ... is there anyway i can trap when the image is loaded & open the print dialog box

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Printing Dynamic Text
Can someone please tell me how to print from a dynamic text field, preferably with a variable;
So far I can only print a visible portion of a text field, but I need to print the whole content of a variable which is also a dynamic text field

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Printing Dynamic Textfields?
Hi

I am workong on an app that parses in XML data in 6 languages. I need to be able to print out portions of this data. As I don't know the number of pages to print out, because this will vary from user to user and language to language, I am testing ways of achieving the printout. I have a few issues so far:

1) How can I add dynamic #p markers?
I don't think this is possible, I have tried attaching MCs with a #p marker embedded but I only want one print dialog box coming up for the user. I am using the printasbitmap(movie,"bmovie") command and can only target one MC.

2) How can I measure page overlap?
I have autosize textfields that I am populating from the XML, however I can't work out how to obtain the 'chunk' of data that I will need to be moved to the next page. Because of the multilingual aspect I can't rely on character counts. I will need to determine exactly how many lines I can fit on each page. I have experimented with textfield heights, but this doesn't give me a way of targeting the data to move to the next page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Wayne

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does anyone know of a problem printing dynamic text, I have a text scroller that is propogated dynamically, when a user presses the print button the contents of that text box are passed to a holder clip text field, and then the print action is set to print the holder clip. The text field is dynamic and html. And it doesnt work.#
Any ideas?

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Printing A Frame In A Dynamic MC
Hi,
Is there any way to print a any frame in a movie clip without specifying #p. please get back to me its urgent..... or is it possible to print a flash object from javascript... !!!!!!!!!!!

Desperately waiting
Venkat

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Printing Bug W/dynamic Text ?
Greetings.

I have recently been overhauling an old client site; in the process, one particular SWF that used to be level0 is now loaded into a main interface, so this SWF now resides at level10. I mention this because the problem I'm encountering didn't happen before, yet I'm certain nothing else remotely relevant has changed.

The user clicks a button to print a movie clip. The movie clip in question contains some dynamic text. When the movie clip displays on screen, you see the dynamic text right where it should be. Here's where it gets weird.

When you go ahead and print this, the dynamic text disappears.

Now, I have tried many things to work around this, including creating a new textfield via actionscript and using that one instead, and even going back to old Flash and using a variable instead of a proper textfield. I've tried different fonts (not that that should matter -- the appropriate characters are embedded anyway, and besides, the clip wouldn't display properly onscreen if they weren't).

Also, the problem is encountered whether viewing the movies through a browser or using the standalone player.

I have also verified that the clip I think I'm printing is in fact the clip that Flash is printing.

I'm not really asking for help to troubleshoot this step-by-step, as I believe I've exhausted all the normal possibilities. What I'm interested in is knowing if anyone has heard of such a bug/eccentricity before, and if he or she has ever heard of a workaround.

(BTW, I've already scoured the flashkit and were-here forums looking for an answer, but found none.)

Many thanks.

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Printing A Dynamic Picture
Hi all.

Im currently working on some games for children in MX and would like to know how to add a print function to the images they create on the page.

The game is a silly 'change the bits' of the animal, with 3 buttons changing the head, tail, and legs on a templated body to come up with a silly final product.

There are 10 options for each button and so, numerous final pet possibilities.

Id like to add the ability for the site visitor to print out the final product but havent got the faintest clue how.

Id really appreciate any help. Ive attached the actual .fla itself.

Thanks to anyone that can help.
Paul

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Hello all,

I'm having serious issues trying to print an MC I have in Flash. I've tried various methods, but nothing works so far, hopefully somebody has done this or knows where I can find information on how to do it. So here's my dilemma...

I have an MC that scrolls. The MC has dynamic content in it that gets passed from the submit button on the previous frame. The mask that allows the MC to scroll is set dynamically by the scrollbar.

It seems as though I am throwing every issue you can at Flash in order to print. I've thought of not making the MC scrollable and putting in on a different layer, then printing that MC. However, since there is dynamic content, the print button isn't passing the variables to the MC.

I've thought of printing the MC inside the scrollbar, but since the mask is set dynamically, it just prints out white pages.

I've thought of doing away with the dynamic mask, but then the dynamic array under the mask doesn't display.

I am at my wits end and would be eternally thankful of anyone that could help out or point me in the right direction.

As a matter of fact, I could probably pay someone to do it.

Thank you all in advance.

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[F8] Printing Dynamic Text
Hey again, I am working on another flash program where the user enters in numbers then hits a calculate button that I've created and the flash shows the results in dynamic text boxes. The problem being however is that when I hit the print button that I've created, the page doesn't display the dynamic numbers that have been calculated on the printed page. Only the numbers that have been entered into the input boxes are being displayed.

So for example the user enters in 10 and 10 in the input boxes (10+10) then hits 'calculate' the dynamic text box (answer) comes up as 20. But when the user goes to print the static page, only 10 + 10 is being printed and the 20 in the answer box isn't showing on the printed page. Only showing on the screen.

Any help here would be great. Thanks!

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I have a dynamic text field with a UIScrollbar. I am have problems with printing the content of the textField. If I set the print function to print the textField I get the following error -

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.text:

Any help would be welcome

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I started an earlier thread about dynamically loading a JPEG into an mc named 'holder'. I have this done now but need to do more with it once it is loaded. Firstly the user will need to be able to download the image by clicking on a button. The finished movie is to go onto a CD-ROM and so the user will need to be able to do this within a self-contained Flash Player and not a browser.

Is this possible? If so what code do I need to use? If not can it be done if the movie is played in a browser?

Secondly, the JPGs that are loaded into the mc need to be printed by the user. I have set it up so that when a button is clicked the image prints. The JPGs will vary in size and we want them to print at their actual size. The problem at present is that when the user presses the Print button, the JPG prints resized to fit the A4 paper.

On the Print button I have this code:

PHP Code:

on (release) {
printAsBitmap("holder", "bmovie");
}

Within the holder mc there are 2 layers. The first layer has one frame with a stop action and a label "#p". The second layer has 2 frames, the first is empty and the second has a label "#b" and a bounding box box drawn in it. I have tried playing around with different settings, but can't get it right. How do I allow the user to print the JPEGs at their actual size?

TIA,

Adrian

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How do you print the text in a dynamic text field using the print action command. (please provide sample if possible)?

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Hello all. I'm just trying to print the contents of a dynamic text box... I want to bind it to a button, so a user can click a button, and upon release, it prints to the machines default printer without asking for anything else, only the contents of a dynamic text box.. is this possible?

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i'm trying to print an invisible movie clip which contains a bunch of attached movie clips, in these clips are dynamic text fields with text in them,
http://ashantieaton.com/weyhill/
this is the site: launch the popup and go to rentals and do a search.
then hit the lame print button and see what happens.
for some reason the graphics for the background of the dynamic content are printed in front of the fileds, not only that but the text fields aren't in the right location on the page, it's almost like flash sends the text to the page, and then sends all the graphics.
i'm just using the regular print function i have not tried using the print jobobject cause no 2004.
please help

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Dear Flash users,

Does anyone knows how to code the actionscript that prints out
the contents in a dynamic textbox (instance name:scroller). The
contents are loaded externally from a text file onto a movie clip
(instance name: placeholder).

I've been trying to use the following code:

Code:
btnPrint1.onRelease = function() {
print("_root.placeHolder", "bframe");
};

But it just capture and print the visible area of the movie, and
did not print the complete text inside the dynamic box.
I want to print out only all the text in that dynamic box.
Can anyone please help me with this?
Thanks a million...

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Hi,

I have problem in priting images in Flash. Functionaliy goes this way.

1. There is an xml file cotaining the name of the images and path (/images/xyz.jpg).

2. User can see one image at a time and navigate through next and back buttons

3. There is a print button, clicking on which should print all the images at one go.

Anyone having solution for this one. Here is enclosing a source file describing the problem. I have written few functions and thats how I managed to get dynamic contents printed. But if I use same logic for images it just fails.

Any suggessions would be highly apprecaited.

Thanks in advance

------------
aShISH

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I have a dynamic text scroller that imports information from an external .txt file.

In the flash animation, is there a way to print the information in the .txt by simply clicking a button.

It needs to print the TermsAndCoditions.txt file.

Any ideas, or tutorials anyone knows of?

Cheers

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ok,

I have wasted most the day trying to find an answer to this, so if anyone knows if this isn't possible, please let me know.

I have SWF that is loading dynamic text, which I am trying to PRINT. So basically, just a button that you hit that sends the text to a printer, nothing more nothing less, sounds simple bloody isn't!

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hi,
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thanks!

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