TextArea, I have conquered you!
After much, much hair pulling and many sleepless nights, I've come up with a way to print a TextArea component's contents correctly when they span more than a single page (ok, I did sleep but dreamt about it, ok?) [Sad note: This is true.]
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It's definitely not a trivial affair my any means and I hope to write an article (chapter? BOOK?!) about it when I get some time.
Now I'm off to celebrate with a well-deserved movie!
The TextArea, I have conquered you! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
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fzavramnir
Anal, you say?
Михаил
Никита
Kwanza
Andrew
I’m interested in your methodology to solve this little quandry … OK major quandry!
The couple of viable solutions I’ve seen thus far involve reading the height of a dynamic text field inside a movie clip then creating an additional clip if a defined max height is encountered.
Thx,
July 28th, 2005 at 5:19 pmAndrew
freedesign
Hi mate, hi have the same problem with textarea: I can’t print all the text containded in it. My nights are also sleepless… could you help me please ?
Do you use the printJob function ?
Thanks for your reply.
October 9th, 2005 at 5:52 pmAral Balkan
Hi freedesign,
I’m afraid I never solved that one and, based on the amount of work I put in and the sheer number of variations I tried, I can pretty confidetly say that it cannot be done!
October 9th, 2005 at 7:12 pmGar
if you know how to do it let the rest of us know. Bragging about it doesn’t help me with the problem I have.
Gar
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 pmaral
I posted a follow-up to this. Please use the search. It turned out to be incomplete and I concluded in that post that it was not possible to achieve this with the version of Flash I was using at the time. Sorry!
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:31 amHoussam Zaza.
Can you please tell me how you solved it ? I am having the same problem… !
June 17th, 2007 at 9:12 amRashmi
Hi..
Can you please let me know the solution to this problem? Even I want to print the contents of the TextArea control. But I am facing lot of problems..
Thanks
September 20th, 2007 at 11:19 amRashmi
Preetam
I can print the contents of my textArea, but the problem is that the contents covers 60% of the PrintOut page.Please tell me how to cover the full page.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm