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Printing in Flash

Hi,

I understand all the normal printing functions in flash.

I need to be able to print 1 frame of a movie using printNum();. I know that I can put a #p label to do that, but I have multiple locations where that would be, and I only want to print one designated location at a time, not everywhere there would be #p.

Any way to do this???

Thanks,
-Sam

negatyve

Are you using flash mx 2004?

sam85281

ASKER

Yes 2004 Pro

-Sam

Billystyx

depedningon the nature of the mc you are printing from you could always make each frame you want printed (at separate times) an mc with a unique instance name and use:
print(target)
to print that specific one...

billystyx

negatyve

Then you can add any frame from any movieclip to a print job, without setting any frame label:

var my_pj = new PrintJob();

if (my_pj.start()){
      // the last parameter is the frame to print
      my_pj.addPage("your_clip", {xMin:0,xMax:400,yMin:0,yMax:400},{printAsBitmap:true}, 3))
      my_pj.send();

}
delete my_pj;

Billystyx

good one:)

sam85281

ASKER

Yea if I'd known I was going to add printing capability to my app, I would have done it in movie clips.

Everything I need to print is on the main timeline, hence the reason I need to use printNum() instead of print();

At this point in the project, moving all the content from the main timeline to movieclips would be a big re-path the actionscript project. Hoping to avoid that.

Any other ideas? :) If not I guess I'll just have a big project to keep me out of trouble for a while.

-Sam

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sam85281

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That's just beautiful Negatyve. Thanks!

-Sam