Printing a Flex DataGrid of variable height.

Question

I have a report I need to print from a Flex Project I have written. The report needs to look like this:

 Header
 -----------
 text, more text

 .----------------------------.
 |Data Grid of Variable Height|
 |============================|
 |                            |
 |                            | 
 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
  Possible Page Break
 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
 |                            | 
 |                            |
 |____________________________|

 Fixed height chart

 Lots more text
 End

I have spent about 16 hours trying to get this working. Every example I have found either has a PrintDataGrid a fixed height of 100% of its container, and then doing some really verbose code to span it to multiple pages. Has anyone gotten anything like this to work? I am considering just making a webservice that takes the data and spits it back in Html, but I would have to recreate the chart.

Answer 1

You can't. Don't even try and print in flex.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean by verbose, but check out the pseudocode and implementation at http://www.brucephillips.name/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/11/Flex--Printing-A-DataGrid-That-Spans-Multiple-Printed-Pages.

Answer 3

Hi cross a web site wich coul be interesting for this problem : Printing Multiple Pages using FlexReport

Hope it would help