AS:Print

[Thomas]

Hello.I'm not sure if Printing in Flash is really a big deal for the Newgrounders,but maybe for big companies with Flash websites...anyways,printing is rather easy.

Ok...First of all,create a button.Have text in the button say "Print" or however anyone says print...

Well,give it the instance of "print".

Now,add these actions to your frame...

_root.print.onRelease = function() {
var pri = new PrintJob();
pri.start();
pri.paperWidth = 800;
pri.paperHeight = 600;
};

If you did all right,a Print screen should pop-up asking for the Print setting and all that.

Well,this tutorial wouldn't do good without explaining,just to make it longer.

_root.print.onRelease = function() {
}

This code is the onRelease function for setting a code to a button,but not in the button actions...or whatever...

var pri = new PrintJob();

'var' will set a new variable.The variable name is 'pri',short for print.'new PrintJob' is stating that there will be a new print.

pri.start();

This code allows the print to start,or open up the window to start.

pri.paperWidth = 800;
pri.paperHeight = 600;

Sets the width and the height of the print.I'm just using 800x600.

Well that's pretty much all...might be to easy,but I doubt anyone on Newgrounds really cared to look into the Print.I'm just trying to make AS:Main bigger :D

[Madferit]

Good job. I think most people knew this already but to the people that didn't this is helpful.

[Thomas]

Example.

[shazwoogle]

lol cool kinda usless but not realy

[Thomas]

At 12/11/05 09:12 PM, DemonHurter wrote: um yeah

First time poster in one of my threads ;)

[Glaiel-Gamer]

or you could just do

print()

or

printAsBitmap()

[Ozcar]

Pretty cool :)

I'll use it for the new website I'm making... These guys from the Tequila company wanted a function like this to print some stuff from their website...

[Thomas]

Glad I can help out a mod :D

[Acerbic]

Pretty handy. Nice work -Thomas.

[DragonFruit-Rock]

*yay!* ive been looking for a tutorial on this for AGES!!! thanks so much!!!!!!!!

[liam]

Wow, that was kinda shit.. what about explaining print(), printNum(), printAsBitmap() and printAsBitmapNum()? If you explained all of them, how they're different, they're different parameters, etc - then maybe this coulda been useful.

[RyanPridgeon]

At 2/18/06 01:50 PM, -liam- wrote: Wow, that was kinda shit.. what about explaining print(), printNum(), printAsBitmap() and printAsBitmapNum()? If you explained all of them, how they're different, they're different parameters, etc - then maybe this coulda been useful.

hey man quit being so tight, we never saw you put effort in like this! >=|

[GeoKureli]

At 2/18/06 01:50 PM, -liam- wrote: Wow, that was kinda shit.. what about explaining print(), printNum(), printAsBitmap() and printAsBitmapNum()? If you explained all of them, how they're different, they're different parameters, etc - then maybe this coulda been useful.

you stole my sig

[liam]

At 2/18/06 02:28 PM, ryanpridgeon wrote: hey man quit being so tight, we never saw you put effort in like this! >=|

Put effort into what? There was obviously no effort put into this tutorial because he didn't even explain all of what I said.

At 2/18/06 03:04 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: you stole my sig

I told you already, I'm only going to have this conversation through my lawyer.

[Depredation]

Is there a way to print a specific movie clip.

,Ali.

[Toast]

At 12/11/05 09:33 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: or you could just do

print()

or

printAsBitmap()

... Lol yeah. :P

It didn't cover everything about printing, and meh, it was a whole AS thread just about one small thing. It could be better, but it's alright, I guess.

[Depredation]

Any ideas on how to print movie clips?

,Ali.

[crumbnumber1]

Geez... im horrible with actionscript. Where do I put the instance name of the button? or... do I even do that?

[NinoGrounds]

Yes, nice, really nice.

[RyanPridgeon]

Next time put a link to AS: Main.

Good tut though.

[Not-an-S]

The only other thing i was wondering is how to print multiple pages such as one saying:
LOL
and the other saying:
LMAO
without having 2 different buttons or print messages

[Trunks]

Sorry to bump this, but I just figured out you could use this to send an endless amount of print commands and screw with other's PCs, I should e-mail Adobe and see if they have a way of stopping it...

Wow, that would suck...

Ignore this post, I'm giving you people ideas....

[azza3809]

At 12/11/05 09:07 PM, -Thomas wrote: _root.print.onRelease = function() {
var pri = new PrintJob();
pri.start();
pri.paperWidth = 800;
pri.paperHeight = 600;
};

If your using flash mx pro 2004 you need to use this script

on(release){ _root.print = function() {
var pri = new PrintJob();
pri.start();
pri.paperWidth = 800;
pri.paperHeight = 600;
};
}

Just thought id contribute to this nicely

[dJtl]

Does it print the whole screen? or just the flash or just the screen with a big white spot where the flash is?

[HorrificMonster]

Good to know.... but I'm not sure exactly what I would use it for...