As part of a recent project, I have created a Cell Table that holds a few million rows of data. This data can be exported to CSV, filtered, and a few other basic functions. The last bit of functionality that I want to add, is the ability to print out the contents of the Cell Table to a local printer. I've done some research online (Google Groups and all the intro GWT material), but as far as I can tell there is no method to print a widget's contents -- specifically a Cell Table. Does anyone have an idea of how to go about setting something like this up (obviously I expect no code -- a description would be great!)?
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There's an idea on how to print GWT widgets in this thread. The author of that post also placed his Print class in a Google Code project.
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You can't directly use a printer interface from js code.
http://javascript.about.com/od/events/a/print.htm
Several webs have a button like "print version" which generates an HTML page with plain custom style.
example - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/
You can also easily generate pdf versions in either client or server. PDF is quite a good way to let user print a document.
more info - https://stackguides.com/questions/1523851/gwt-printing-to-pdf
