[Laszlo-dev] proposed printing API

[Adam Wolff]

As I understand it, this will limit a print job to one page. It seems 
that you'll need to add something to the API here.

One way to implement this would be to have a printpage view that is 
the only kind of child a printview will accept. For simplicity, a 
printview without a printpage child is implicitly a single page print 
job.

One problem: you can't add frames to a flash movieclip at runtime (nor 
can you label frames.) We could workaround this two ways:
1) Include flash movieclips capable of printjobs from, say 1-20 pages 
and add a maxprintpages attribute which determines the high end of 
that range. Kinda like maxtextsize

2) Add the capability to the server to generate printer movieclips, 
and request them at runtime. (This would make the implementation much 
more complicated, because you'd have to wait until your movieclip 
loaded before you could lay out your print job.)

Also, printview will need a setBoundingBox method.

A

Sarah Allen wrote:
> I've written up a proposal for adding printing to LPS:
> http://www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Printing
> 
> Many thanks for Adam and Tucker for their help researching the Flash 
> capabilities.
> 
> Your comments, questions and suggestions much appreciated.
> 
> Sarah 
> 
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