Printing

[Guest Mike99]

I'd like to know how I can print a webpage that I currently have open in my browser. Any easy way to do this?

Thanks

[Insolence 2]

CTRL+P ?

AutoIT should be able to automate printing easily, and it's much simpler then making a UDF(user defined function) for printing.

Why don'tcha try that and give us the results.

[MHz 80]

Welcome,

Try this sample code on an IE window.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
WinActivate('Internet Explorer')
Send('^p')

WinTitleMatchMode, will allow for any substring, which you may need for a browser?

The Send function works on active windows. So WinActivate will help to activate.

[Insolence 2]

Excellent post MHz

You also might want to wait for the Internet Explorer window to open:

;tell AutoIT to look inside window titles (sub strings) instead of just the beginning
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

;Maximize the window
WinActivate('Internet Explorer')

;wait 1 second for window to open
Sleep(1000)

;Send ctrl + p
Send('^p')

From there you'll have to manipulate the print dialog, if you need any more help feel free to ask

[Guest Mike99]

Excellent post MHz

You also might want to wait for the Internet Explorer window to open:

;tell AutoIT to look inside window titles (sub strings) instead of just the beginning
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

;Maximize the window
WinActivate('Internet Explorer')

;wait 1 second for window to open
Sleep(1000)

;Send ctrl + p
Send('^p')

From there you'll have to manipulate the print dialog, if you need any more help feel free to ask

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for the help. The only issue here is that this test may be run on many machines, each with a different printer. I don't want to use a different script for each machine.

Will most of them print if I just send an {ENTER} (or a couple {ENTER})

after the send("^p")?

i.e.

send ("^p")

sleep(4000) ;wait a few seconds for the print dialog box to come up

send ("{ENTER}") ;Hopefully this will print out the page in most (if not all?) cases.

Let me know if you think this will work..

Thanks