Printing in Firefox3 and chrome

[mark scahill]

I'm trying to print with the RadGridView PrintToHtml().

It works well in IE, but not at all in Chrome or Firefox (3.5.7).
(Firefox twitches the display but otherwise does nothing, Chrome crashes the silverlight control).

Using the latest (Q3 2009) version of the rad controls for silverlight.

I get the same problem using the example code...
http://localhost:6519/Default.aspx#GridView/Printing

Is printing supported in Firefox or Chrome?

Is there any way of telling within silverlight the browser type so I can at least prevent the print option appearing in non-supported browsers?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

  Mark

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hello mark scahill,

This is a known issue and we are working on it . Unfortunatelly so far printing is relieble only in IE .

Regards,
Pavel Pavlov
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[Jackie]

Is there an update for this yet? I still have the same issue using PrintToHtml in Chrome and Firefox.

Thanks,

[Yoan]

Hello Jacqueline,

Indeed, PrintToHtml() is a legacy method. In our latest version of RadControls you should use RadDocument as described in this online example.


Regards,
Yoan
Telerik

[Jackie]

We need a solution where we will be able to apply this to any datagrid we have without having to make a new section to handle it. Every datagrid has a different amount of columns and we have too many datagrids throughout the program to have to do this for each one. In this example we would have to add the different columns as 'Business Objects' for each datagrid and apply a different change for every single datagrid. We need the functionality of the printtohtml function where we can just pass in what datagrid it is but applied to chrome.

[Yoan]

Hello Jacqueline,

Actually, you can pass every single RadGridView control to the Print method. Please check the print method which is located in the PrintAndExportWithRadDocument class. For your convenience, I have prepared a sample project based on the mentioned online demo. Please give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

Regards,
Yoan
Telerik