Printing from a application report component

Question

Hello friends,
Anyone knows how could i make a portlet for allowing the user to print its content ?
I would like a user to be able to print a report which is rendered using a report component.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Separating out logical code from display code is nothing to be ashamed of, but there are better ways of doing it... Remember, you are in an OOP environment, so you can organise things to share functionality across a wide range of things without getting tied up in global function hell.
For example, I could do this:
[code]
package com.whatever
  import spark.components.Group;
[Event(name="customEvent",type="flash.events.Event")]
public class PGroupBase extends Group
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I can then add custom properties to that class, or create subclasses of that class, or quite a lot of other things. I can implement interfaces and I can use static properties to provide global links between every instance and so on and so forth.
And, from a design perspective, in my display code, I still end up with the very simple and familiar:
[code]
<whatever:PGroupBase width="100%" height="100%"
    customEvent="doSomethingOnACustomEvent(event)"
    />
[/code]
That doesn't stop you from separating out purely abstract code into purely abstract classes - for example, I have a singleton pattern OrientationManager class that provides me with full control over stage rotation etc for anything that cares to use it in just a couple of lines - but it does mean that you can leverage the full might of Flex IVisualElement and IUIComponent power without tieing yourself up in knots.
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