Printing from Web App

[Guest]

I have a simple question that I have not been able to answer myself ... is it
possible for a VB 2003 web app to send output to a printer? I would like to
allow the web site user to click a button the causes a bunch of lines to be
sent to his/her printer ... sounds simple but I'm not sure it's possible from
a web app. Windows app ... yes but what about a web app (eg. teh
PrintDocument component is not available).

 

[Guest]

I have a simple question that I have not been able to answer myself
... is it possible for a VB 2003 web app to send output to a printer?
I would like to allow the web site user to click a button the causes a
bunch of lines to be sent to his/her printer ... sounds simple but I'm
not sure it's possible from a web app. Windows app ... yes but what
about a web app (eg. teh PrintDocument component is not available).

No, that would be a security hazzard.

You can bring up the print dialog via javascript tho - and format your
output via CSS.

 

[AMDRIT]

say you have a button

<input type="buton" onclick="window.print();"/>