Macromedia Flash® ActionScript: Training from the Source

Lesson 17. Printing and Context Menus Flash gives you a great amount of control over the process of printing content within the Flash movie window. You can print content that is not displayed onscreen as well as print the content within specific m...

What You Will Learn In this lesson, you will: Distinguish between printing from Flash and printing from the browserLearn how to use the PrintJob classPrint content as a bitmap or vectorCreate a custom context menuAdd custom items to a context men...

Approximate Time This lesson takes approximately forty-five minutes to complete. ...

Lesson Files Media Files: None Starting Files: Lesson17/Start/PrintArea1.fla Lesson17/Start/ContextMenu1.fla Completed Projects: Lesson17/Completed/PrintArea2.fla Lesson17/Completed/ContextMenu2.fla ...

Flash Printing versus Browser Printing Despite all the interactive and exciting ways in which you can use Flash to create powerful multimedia presentations, sometimes it's appropriate to add print functionality to an application. Printing function...

Using the PrintJob Class The PrintJob class is a built-in Flash class that gives the programmer control over what can be printed in a SWF file as well as how it's printed. To use the PrintJob class, a new instance of the class must be created. ...

Creating Custom Context Menus The context menu appears when you right-click a Flash movie (Ctrl-click on a Macintosh). There are three different types of Flash context menus: Standard menu. Appears when you right-click anything in a Flash movie e...

What You Have Learned In this lesson, you have: Learned the differences between Flash printing and browser printing (pages 453454)Used the PrintJob class to print both vectors and bitmaps (pages 454464)Created a custom context menu (pages 464472)...