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Hi Adam,
Are you planning to create a mobile webapp or a native app?
If you are creating a mobile webapp then your snippet window.print() will activate the printer service and follow it to completion. The Test Center does not understand printing and thus will ignore the window.print() command.
If you are wanting to create a native app with print service the api is not yet supported.
thank you octavio
window.print worked for me but it only prints the visible part of the screen is there any other way to work around. something like oppening the page with another program or even open it in a new browser window(window.open() window.document.write(theHTMLwidget content)) and then print?
do you have any other suggestions?just worked fine using new window
but i have another question: in my page i have an HTML widget and followed by a next button. the html is dynamically resized(portraite and lanscape) but the button appears far down the page when rotating to landscape in the simulator. how can i fix that?Hi angelsprincess1,
Please take a look at this Advanced UI Design – Cross-Platform Development to learn more about how to config your widgets and set them well for different screen sizes.
I’m creating native ios app, how can I add the print service where it prints the whole page not only the visible part? With the webapp i used to open a new safari window and then print but this doesn’t work with native apps.
Hi,
If you are building using MyEclipse there are some print plugins you can try. I have not tested them so I can’t really say which one would be the best for you to use. But it is an option. Using MobiOne you are limited to the window.print which doesn’t really have any options that I know of, other than using a separate css for the printing:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10845621/window-print-is-not-printing-the-whole-pageOk can i open a new safari window from my native ios app and then print use window.print. And how to do this?
Hi,
As MobiOne does not have any print services and I don’t believe native apps can print to the child browser without the use a plugin.
You can open a new safari window using the javascript command:
window.open(‘http://google.com’,’_system’);
But, once you do this you are leaving your native app and would have no way to print it unless it was supported on the page you are opening side. Your best, and maybe only option, would be to use PhoneGap plugins, which means building using MyEclipse or an alternative build provider like PhoneGap Build.
Where can I find such plugins. And how to use them in myeclipse?
Another thing is that i cant edit my design from myeclipse. What’s mobione alternative especially for new users?Regards
Hi,
If you are using the phone gap build services you can search their plugins: https://build.phonegap.com/plugins
Correct, MyEclipse cannot edit mobione files. They are proprietary to MobiOne. This is why we suggest to design in MobiOne then import into MyEclipse to build the app. You can always go back into MobiOne and edit your project, then just re-generate from MobiOne and when you are ready to build reimport the edited files into MyEclipse using the ant script file, this will bring in the newly edited files and should be ready to build.
“What’s mobione alternative especially for new users?”
Im not sure what you mean by this.From the config.xml, I installed cordova plugin printer. How can i use this in the js button action. When i used cordova.plugins.printer.print(pagecontent,”doc.html”,…) it didn’t work. So what are the correct steps.
Thank you for your quick response.Hi,
I havent actually tested this. But, with a brief look at the documents for it I would try something like this.
First check if the print service is available you an do this in your device ready function;
cordova.plugins.printer.isAvailable(
function (isAvailable) {
alert(isAvailable ? ‘Service is available’ : ‘Service NOT available’);
}
);If its not available below will do no good.
If it is available, in your buttons run javascript you could put something like this to print the file called doc.html:// Either a DOM node or a string
var page = document.body;cordova.plugins.printer.print(page, ‘doc.html’, function () {
alert(‘printing finished or canceled’)
});According to the docs this should print the entire page.
