27740 - Tree Widgets don't print.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[shrirang khanzode]

I see this problem on today's linux and windows builds (20000214m14)

1. Install and launch the browser
2. On windows, type 'c:\' in Location Box to view local file listing
3. If the listing does not appear, minimize and maximize the window.(known 
   problem) 
4. Once the file listing appears, select the File->Print menu option.
5. Observe that a blank page prints.

Same thing happens on linux also.

Comment 1

[dcone (gone)]

What was the last build we could print file listings.  Did any build last week 
work?

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

I saw this problem today. Tried last week's builds....but they do not print file 
listings.

Comment 3

[dcone (gone)]

Web directories do print, this seems to be a local disk issue.

Comment 4

[dcone (gone)]

It seems that on a local disk (typing 'c:\') generates a tree widget to display 
the directory (which does not work).  Printing this just prints out the header 
(top line).  I don't know much about the tree widget so I will give this to 
Hyatt to investigate why tree widgets don't print.

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

It has never been a feature requirement that trees would be printable.  
Futuring.

Comment 6

[Navin Gupta]

ftp://sweetlou does not print. The printed page has headers but no directory
structure.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

This bug may block bug 66247, "[RFE] Print Bookmarks from Bookmarks Manager 
window".

Comment 8

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (new qa contact for Printing)

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

There's some interesting discussion on bug 66247 about how trees should print: 
should they scale each column down (and risk cutting off a lot of information), 
allow rows to expand and wrap data within rows, or use a different format 
altogether when printing?

Comment 10

[dcone (gone)]

*** Bug 83661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Ken Harris]

Hmm, would this qualify as 4xp, since in NS4 you could
print local directory listings, but in Mozilla you can't?
"Enable html directory listing" apparently only applies
to remote directories -- for local ones I'm always getting
the tree widget (bug?).
I don't know if printing directory listings itself is a
feature requirement, but when some random asks me how to
print a directory in Windows, NS4 is the quickest and
easiest.

Comment 12

[thord]

Nominating 4xp and mozilla1.0
I'll find this feature very useful in Ns4 and it will give mozilla another edge
over MSIE. (Printing local directories that is...)

Comment 13

[Roland Mainz]

rods:
Is this the bug about the problem that XUL tree widgets don't print ?

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Current error message with trunk is "We are unable to Print or Print Preview this page."  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060625 SeaMonkey/1.5a

to set tree view, option network.dir.format=3
to reset to flat: network.dir.format=2 

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tree view not available for Firefox.  ref: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dir.format

Comment 16

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, FF34 on Windows and Linux.