- Flex - FlexPrintJob how to print a group of fields and a PrintDataGrid properly?
- var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
- if (printJob.start()) {
- var thePrintView:printViewEventUser = new printViewEventUser(); // Create a FormPrintView control as a child of the application.
- addElement(thePrintView);
- thePrintView.width=printJob.pageWidth;
- thePrintView.height=printJob.pageHeight;
- thePrintView.parentEncounter=parentEncounter; //pass in my object for the labels to print
- thePrintView._currentRec=_currentRec; //pass in my object for the labels to print
- thePrintView.myDataGrid.dataProvider = bedSearchEditList._recs;
- thePrintView.showPage("single"); // Create a single-page image.
- if(!thePrintView.myDataGrid.validNextPage) // If the print image's DataGrid can hold all the data provider's rows, add the page to the print job.
- {
- printJob.addObject(thePrintView,FlexPrintJobScaleType.NONE);
- }
- else // Otherwise, the job requires multiple pages.
- {
- thePrintView.showPage("first"); // Create the first page and add it to the print job.
- printJob.addObject(thePrintView);
- thePrintView.pageNumber++;
- while(true) //queue pages
- {
- thePrintView.myDataGrid.nextPage(); // Move the next page of data to the top of the PrintDataGrid.
- thePrintView.showPage("last"); // Try creating a last page.
- if(!thePrintView.myDataGrid.validNextPage) // If the page holds the remaining data, or if the last page was completely filled by the last grid data, queue it for printing. Test if there is data for another PrintDataGrid page.
- {
- printJob.addObject(thePrintView,FlexPrintJobScaleType.MATCH_WIDTH); // This is the last page; queue it and exit the print loop.
- break;
- }
- else // This is not the last page. Queue a middle page.
- {
- thePrintView.showPage("middle");
- printJob.addObject(thePrintView,FlexPrintJobScaleType.MATCH_WIDTH);
- thePrintView.pageNumber++;
- }
- }
- }
- removeElement(thePrintView);
- }
- printJob.send(); // Send the job to the printer.