OS X: "wrong" print dialog

[xtsr]

Out of the blue I get a different print dialog, when calling

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forms.prt_letter.controller.print(false,true,false);

This is the new dialog:

Unwanted print dialog

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This is what I had before and what I want, the standard OS X print dialog:

Wanted print dialog

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I don't know what happened. Does anyone know how this can be influenced? I need the "Preview" button and want to be able to easily print PDFs...

Working on Servoy 4.1.3 - build 672, OS X ( 10.5.8 ), MySQL 5.0 Backend

Thanks!

[Andrei Costescu]

Does changing "Use system prin dialog" do the trick? (in smart client Edit -> Preferences -> General, or "useSystemPrintDialog" in servoy.properties)

[xtsr]

Thanks Andrei,
yes, that did the trick! I remembered something like that, but couldn't find it because I hide the Menu with the Kiosk plugin on startup

[mboegem]

I found the same 'use system print dialog' at the server admin pages. Which should push this setting to the client.
Unfortunately - even with an empty cache - this wasn't the case.
Is this a bug or just bad luck?

I should mention here: we startup the solution with a deeplink and additional arguments.
As far as I have tested, this way of starting up a solution blocks also the creation of a desktop icon when it's asked to be pushed.

Last question: is this setting something we could have as a scriptable item? ie.

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application.useSystemPrintDialog = true;

I think we could live with this as well

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application.useSystemPrintDialog(true);

[pmo]

Hello Servoy,
I have the same problem.
We really need a way to programmatically set this client property, so we can be sure that the end users are printing correctly.
Has this been submitted as a feature request?
Thanks

[Andrei Costescu]

I found the same 'use system print dialog' at the server admin pages. Which should push this setting to the client.
Unfortunately - even with an empty cache - this wasn't the case.

Did you try deleting the .servoy in you user's home dir as well?

Has this been submitted as a feature request?

I don't see a submitted feature request for this. Please create one:
http://www.servoy.com/s

[mboegem]

I don't see a submitted feature request for this. Please create one:

did so > Case ID: 269842

Thnkx a lot!