One of the Silverlight 4 features listed in a lot of the PDC documents is Print Preview.
I've searched for examples on how to use this and found nothing so far. Has anyone got this working yet? Can you give me some pointers on how to implement a simple web app with print preview in.
I have not seen print preview as any of them but actual Printing support in which you can control which controls are printed and events based on the printing process.
After looking for a while I found a way to do this by combining some features I found in other projects, but they used it for image manipulation. I tried with printing and it seems to work fine.
Here how it works:
Get the base container for the print contents converted to a bitmap by using WriteableBitmap, here I´ll use a Canvas:
WriteableBitmap wb = new WriteableBitmap(this.canvas1, null);
Use this bitmap as a source for a Image control (can be inside a ScrollViewer, what is even better).
this.imagePreview.Height = wb.PixelHeight;
this.imagePreview.Width = wb.PixelWidth;
this.imagePreview.Source = wb;
Set scaling base units (used 1 percent in this case):
Point scale = new Point();
scale.X = imagePreview.Width/100d;
scale.Y = imagePreview.Height/100d;
Then adjust the scaling using a Slider (optional)
private void vSlider_ValueChanged(object sender, RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs<double> e)
{
imagePreview.Height = scale.Y * vSlider.Value;
imagePreview.Width = scale.X * vSlider.Value;
}
I think from the lack of responses and the fact that as Hurricanepkt pointed out in his reply Tim Heuer and others talk about a virtual print which if displying the same thing on the screen could be built quite easily into your own bespoke Print Preview functionality that the Print Preview listed in some lists is actually people misinterpretting what the Virtual Print documents actually are.
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In After Effects scripts, if you want your script to be able to be docked in the program's workspace, the only way to do it as far as I know is to use a resource string like this:
var res = "Group{orientation:'column', alignment:['fill', 'fill'], alignChildren:['fill', 'fill'],\
group1: Group{orientation:'column', alignment:['fill', ''], alignChildren:['fill', ''],\
button1: Button{text: 'Button'},\
},\
}";
myPanel.grp = myPanel.add(res);
The above code creates a script UI with one button ("button1") inside a group ("group1").
I would like to know other ways to create the same resource string. Is it possible to make it using a JSON object and then stringifying it??
I know it can be done somehow, because I have inspected the Duik Bassel script that is dockable and, for example, adds elements like this:
var button1 = myPal.add( 'button' );
but I cannot understand how to do it myself.
TL;DR: I want to make a dockable scriptUI without writing a giant string all at once, but bit by bit, like a floating script.
UI container elements have an add() method which allows you to add other UI elements to them, and you can treat them as normal objects.
var grp = myPanel.add("group");
grp.orientation = "column";
grp.alignment = ['fill', 'fill'];
grp.alignChildren = ['fill', 'fill'];
var group1 = grp.add("group");
…
var button1 = group1.add("button");
button1.text = 'Button'
More details and examples here: https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/user-interface-tools/types-of-controls.html#containers
Also worth checking out https://scriptui.joonas.me/ which is a visual scriptUI interface builder. You have to do some work on the code it produces to get panels for AE, but it's not hard.
extendscript still uses a 20th century version of javaScript, which doesn't have JSON built-in, but I have successfully used a JSON polyfill with it.
I used json2.js to get structured data in and out of Illustrator, and it worked beautifully, but I can see there's now a json3.js which might be better for whatever reason. This stackoverflow question addresses the differences.
To load another .js file (such as a polyfill) into your script, you need to do something like
var scriptsFolder = (new File($.fileName)).parent; // hacky but effective
$.evalFile(scriptsFolder + "/lib/json2.js"); // load JSON polyfill
These file locations may differ in other Adobe apps. Not sure what it would be in AfterEffects. I seem to remember that InDesign has a different location for scripts. You can also hardcode the path, of course.
Good luck!
I can't seem to find any information on this, but does anyone know if it is possible to use an embedded image from my.resources within an ObjectListView SubItem?
I am currently using images stored in an ImageList control, but I find for some reason, those images get corrupted and start displaying imperfections. I don't have the problem if I pull them from the embedded resources as I previously have with the normal listview control.
I am using the ImageGetter routine to return a key reference the ImageList, however, ultimately I would like to pull these from embedded resources. I would like to also do this for animated GIF references as well.
If anyone knows a way, could you please assist. Sample code would be appreciated.
Thanks
You can return three different types from the ImageGetter
int - the int value will be used as an index into the image list
String - the string value will be used as a key into the image list
Image - the Image will be drawn directly (only in OwnerDrawn mode)
So option number 3 could be what you want. Note that you have to set objectListView1.OwnerDraw = true.
If that does not work, an alternative could be to load the images into the ImageList at runtime. There is an example here.
this.mainColumn.ImageGetter = delegate(object row) {
String key = this.GetImageKey(row);
if (!this.listView.LargeImageList.Images.ContainsKey(key)) {
Image smallImage = this.GetSmallImageFromStorage(key);
Image largeImage = this.GetLargeImageFromStorage(key);
this.listView.SmallImageList.Images.Add(key, smallImage);
this.listView.LargeImageList.Images.Add(key, largeImage);
}
return key;
};
This dynamically fetches the images if they haven’t been already fetched. You will need to write the GetImageKey(), GetSmallImageFromStorage() and GetLargeImageFromStorage() methods. Their names will probably be different, depending on exactly how you are deciding which image is shown against which model object.
I am learning HP UFT.
Recently I came across fireevent and I tried to implement it on the website of Flipkart. I was trying to use firevent("onmouseover") for the link Men on the homepage of the website.
I used ChildObjects to find out the Link and WebElement (in two different tests), first Highlighted it and then used object.fireevent("onmouseover") as well as object.fireevent("OnClick"). The OnClick is working and it is showing the link as selected (i.e. the dotted box covering the link when we press tab), but it is not showing the Menu Under Men Section.
I had googled and bingged a lot. But was unable to find the exact working of FireEvent in QTP/UFT.
Please Help me solving the above problem as well as some tutorials on FireEvent.
EDIT: I am using IE 11 for testing.
Motti has already answered the technical definition, but I shall attempt to give you a solution to your functional issue.
In my experience .FireEvent often doesn't work as you would expect. An alternative for something like onmouseover is to simulate user behaviour a bit more closely by actually moving the mouse to the desired location. In our framework we have a little extension function to do just that, a pared-down version of which is shown here:
Sub My_MouseOver(objSender)
Dim absX : absX = objSender.GetROProperty("abs_x")
Dim absY : absY = objSender.GetROProperty("abs_y")
Dim width : width = objSender.GetROProperty("width")
Dim height : height = objSender.GetROProperty("height")
Dim x : x = (absX + (width / 2))
Dim y : y = (absY + (height / 2))
Dim deviceReplay : Set deviceReplay = CreateObject("Mercury.DeviceReplay")
deviceReplay.MouseMove x, y
Reporter.ReportEvent micDone, "A step name", "A useful step description"
End Sub
RegisterUserFunc "Link", "MouseOver", "My_MouseOver"
RegisterUserFunc "WebButton", "MouseOver", "My_MouseOver"
RegisterUserFunc "WebElement", "MouseOver", "My_MouseOver"
As an example you can then do as follows to bring up the "ELECTRONICS" menu overlay on flipkart.com (obviously substitute your own Browser and Page definitions):
Browser("Flipkart").Page("Main Nav").Link("xpath:=//a[#data-tracking-id='electronics']").MouseOver
In the original version there's various extra bits of error handling and custom reporting so it tells you what you clicked on, but the essence is the same. It locates the object on screen, calculates the centre and moves the mouse there. You might want to wait a small amount of time for the menu overlay to appear after doing so before calling .Click on one of the newly-displayed sub-elements.
I found a solution to my problem and it is working perfectly.
Setting.WebPackage("ReplayType") = 2
object.FireEvent "onmouseover"
Setting.WebPackage("ReplayType") = 1
In this case, the object will be:
Browser("name:=Online Shopping.*").Page("name:=Online Shopping.*").Link("innertext:=Men")
I have tried this and it is working fine. I guess, we do not need any alternatives. But I really don't know is, Ctrl+Space is not working for this in UFT. Don't know the reason.
This actually depends on what browser you're using.
Warning: There are exceptions to the information presented in this answer and it also may change in the future. The answer is meant to give a basic understanding but don't depend on it to be true without checking the behaviour for your specific version/use-case.
Originally QTP's FireEvent was supposed to call IE's non-standard fireEvent method.
On Firefox and Chrome this is implemented using the standard dispatchEvent. You should check which events the web site expects to get.
Things get complicated if you mix the event models (the standard DOM level 2 and Microsofts) as explained in this blog post.
When i saved a native Dynamics AX 2009 report as pdf or pdf-embed it doesn't show the images in the report i.e. company logo in header section, properly. The image comes very distorted, grayish and repeated.
On the other if i export the image in HTML format the image comes properly.
Had anyone experience a similar issue.
Please note that im saving the report as pdf using "file" option that comes when the report print dialog opens.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Issue will go if the image format used is one of the following
1. 24bit Bitmap
2. TIFF
I have found a solution for this issue in AX 2009:
Bitmap getImageBitmap(ItemId _itemId)
{
HPLInventImages inventImages; // Column HPLInventImages.ItemImage is EDT:BlobData (which is a container)
Image image;
;
if (!_itemId) return inventImages.ItemImage; // Return null bitmap. The whole AX client crashes if you try to do the resizing code below on a null bitmap.
select firstonly inventImages where inventImages.ItemId==_itemId;
//return inventImages.ItemImage; // Would normally just do this, but see comments below.
// Ok, this next bit is weird!
// There is a known issue with AX reports with images in, getting saved as PDFs:
// In some cases, the images appear as garbage on the PDF.
// I have found that resizing the image before rendering it, causes the image to come out ok on the PDF.
// So the code below does a token resize (by 1.0 times!) operation on the image before returning it.
// That is enough to make the image on the PDF turn out ok.
image=new Image(inventImages.ItemImage);
image.resize(image.width()*1.0,image.height()*1.0,InterpolationMode::InterpolationModeHighQuality);
return image.getData();
}
im searching the best way for Printing a whole form / Several Datagridviews and some Specific controll contents in my WindowsForm application.
I know the internet is full with bad and good examples.
Its hard to separate the Good examples from the Bad examples.
So what can you reccomend me?
Whats your way to do this? Wich Examples in the Web are useful?
Thanks in advance
Try this code. This will print all the contents of the current form.
using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(this.Width, this.Height))
{
this.DrawToBitmap(bmp, this.ClientRectangle);
using (PrintDocument p = new PrintDocument())
{
p.PrintPage += (o, pe) =>
{
pe.Graphics.DrawImage(bmp, this.ClientRectangle);
};
p.Print();
}
}
Sorry I didn't tested it.
you could create a snapshot from the form you want to print and then print the image.
For creating snapshots you could have a look here