Accessing Command Bar Items.....

[stewartship]

IN VB and other programming languages you can access the command bar items:

e.g.

Sub cmdPrint_Click()

Item.GetInspector.CommandBars.Item("Menu Bar").Controls("File").Controls("Print...").Execute

End Sub

Really need to do something similar to this but using php, to direct the print layout to print preview view. Does anyone know how? or have any leads?

Any help really welcome!

Cheers

[ysu]

With php being a server side language this will never work - in php.

In javascript there are a few things, but (thankfully!) nothing as obtrusive as calling any function from the menubar. You can call print though, IIRC by document.print()

[stewartship]

hi Ysu!

Thanks for the reply. Understand it is serverside. Probably did not explain properly. Basically i have a new window open via javascript, that launches a php page, but i want the window that opens to display the new 'page' in the print preview context. Can i do this with the javascript commands when opening the new window? or am i just barking up the wrong tree?

[bogu]

U will have to create your own preview page ...

[ysu]

I don't know if it's possible. The print function itself is callable, as I said, but that will call the print dialog.

If you can find it out, please tell us!