159900 - need to be abe to print xul IFRAME from javascript

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[rvj]

It appears that #112609, (need to create nsprintsetting from script)  is only
designed to work with the nswebbrowser interface. If this understanding is wrong
please advise.

Having looked back over some earlier RFEs for printing support from script
(namely #61580 and #70950), I notice this comment in #70950.  

------- Additional Comment #20 From [e-mail] 2002-02-06 07:53 ------- 
If you want to directly print an IFrame from JS please open a new bug. This bug
is now fixed. You can print from JS without the dialog showing.


Could this please be done for xul iframes as this seems essential when building
 and switching between on-the-fly document.


Thanks

Comment 1

[rvj]

..... and by printing support I mean all the functionality of nsprintsettings 
and nsprintpreview but for xul iframes.


BTW Is there any documentation on nsPrintSettings for script. In one of the bug 
reports it implies that a print silent feature exists on the page setup dialog 
box

I cant/find such an option on the current dialog box of Mozilla 1.1a

 Can anyone clarify?

Comment 2

[rvj]

PS Please note that the earlier #61580 and #70950 were different RFEs (although 
related)

#61580 was a request for quiet printing support of XUL iframes
#70950 was a request for full printing/previewing support of XUL iframes

Unfortunately these were marked as duplicate RFEs in #61580 even though I hoped 
that I had made it clear that these were essentially different requests 
(see comment 3 in #70950)

I apologise for having to restate this but it seems most of the earlier 
comments have been ignored. 

Comment 3

[Cédric Chantepie]

Attachment: Test case (from chrome)

Should be tested from chrome

Comment 4

[rvj]

Actually the real problem is slightly different. I can get basic printing to 
work. The problem is when  printing Iframes if they are not visible 
particularly 

a)if they are collapsed (have zero height)
b) or a non-active deck (  which I think generates the same problem)

By non-active I mean one where the deck contains an iframe which is NOT 
currently selected via selectIndex attribute

I think your test case need to address these variants.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

"We are unable to Print or Print Preview this page."  attempting to print testcase using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060629 Minefield/3.0a1

blocked by Bug 102485?
?OS=ALL?