Printing

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Why is this printing in flash so hard??

So heres the problem, in the timeline i have certain places where i allow the user to print whats on the screen.

Ive treid using the #p label on the frames but if there is more than one label it prints all the frames with that label.

Again i need only what on the screen to print at any given time!!

Any assiantance is helpful ASAP

*.Avi

2

Try putting stuff in different scenes?

3

No can do!!

The scene allows the user to change the color of an object, if i move to a different scene i cant carry over the color properties!!

4

oh, that sucks. Hrmm… AH! I got it. Just use Javascript to print the page. That will print whatever is in the Flash window @ the time!

5

Sounds good!!

So how do i do that associating the JS to a flash button

6

let me try to do something up for you ok?

7

Maybe this helps
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/printing_from_browsers.htm

8

or maybe this one
http://www.projectcool.com/webdev/Article/9970/0/page/3

9

Ok now!

Here is the Javascript that you need to place inside your HTML file.


<SCRIPT>
function printMe() {
	window.print();
	}
</SCRIPT>

Here is the action you need to put inside your MC.


on(release) {
 GetURL ("javascript:printMe()");
}

What this will do is print the HTML page and accordingly the Flash that’s on the page.

I hope this works out for you.

Taylor
(AKA DigitalPimp)

10

show off.

11

Yeah…that should work real nice.

Thanks a lot gentleman.

12

Oh, I’ll give that a try and may be back for more help

13

Hey everyone!!

So that last idea is not wokring. I tried putting that code in, the on release bit is attached to a button, and whne its clicked it says cannot open page…blah blah blah…

Any other ideas!!

14

Have you embeded the flash inside the HTML page yet?

15

yep…just like you said to…unfortunately i cant up load the file cause its kinda big

16

Can you past the error that you are getting?

17

a new pafe opens up saying Cannot open specified page…the usual IE error for unloadable pages!!

18

What is the URL in the adress bar?

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d:/Avi/foldername/about:printMe

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You’ve go something coded wrong in your project. Can you send it to me in e-mail or something? Try working on a blank stage and trying it.