How to make a print Button?

[ITS_luka]

I want to make a print button to print values of fields on a page.

[PhiLho]

To my knowledge, there is no simple way...
And it depends on what you want to print.

I think there is a way for JavaScript to request to the browser to print out the current page. This is probably not what you want.

Another way is to create on the server side a document laying out the information you need to print. It might be a simple HTML file, and maybe you can display it in a popup window and ask the browser to print it out. It can be problematic with popup blockers... Or it might be a PDF file made with iText, for example, and then the users can download it and print it themselves.

[icfantv]

Here's what I did for starters:

          TextButton printButton = new TextButton("Print", Images.INSTANCE.print());
          printButton.addSelectHandler(new SelectHandler() {

            @Override
            public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) {
              Window.print();
            }
          });

I think this executes javascript:print() and prints the browser window. The Images class is simply my image provider class.

I think Philho is right though, if you want a formatted page to be printed, you'll need to format the data you want to print, slap that in some type of pop-up window and then call Window.print inside that pop-up window.

HTH.

--adam

[ITS_luka]

OK thank you. I'v done it