Printing

[John C]

Hi all,

Is there a way of creating a procedure (passing a couple of parameters) to
print either a short note or the contents from a (hidden) form. Both options
should be able to print the value of the passed parameters.

Please explain how to implement this.
Thanks a lot for any help.
John

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Not easily. The browser is designed to print what you see in the browser
window. To print something else, you would have to write a custom ActiveX
control.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[John C]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks very much for your reply.
Is there any way of doing this with a pre-visible form? Thus jumping from
anywhere to a form from where you can print a copy to the printer?

Thanks a lot for your help.
John.

 

[Ronx]

I use server-side scripting for this - see
www.rxs-enterprises.com/cgi-bin/batdata.cgi?field=state&srchval=Florida
(watch for URL wrapping) for an example. The print button is toward the
bottom of the page.
It may be possible to use JavaScript to transfer parameters to another
page - see http://tech.irt.org/articles/js063/index.htm for a possible
solution.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Again, the browser can only print what you see.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.