Can javascript tell if a print job was successful? How?

toefuzzies · Mar 25, 2004

I'd like to close a popup window based that window printing successfully, but I don't want the user to have the choice to close - I just want the window to close if the printing was successful. Any ideas?

...I'm currently using self.close(), but would rather wait to see if the printing was successful first.

<SCRIPT Language="Javascript">
if (window.print) {
document.write('<form><input type="button" name="print" value="print" onclick="javascript:window.print();self.close();"></form>');
}

</script>

adam0101 · Mar 25, 2004

window.print() doesn't have a return value and the event onafterprint fires even if the click "Cancel" on the print dialog box. You could prompt the user to ask if the print was successful and close the window if they click "Ok".

The only other thing I can think of, besides using an ActiveX component, is maybe you can use the following tag in your <HEAD> tag.

Code:

<link rel=alternate media=print href="yourPage.asp?setPrintCookie=true">

Then, on your page, look for the setPrintCookie parameter in the Query String and, if you find it, set a cookie with ASP (you might be able to set the cookie using JavaScript, but I'm guessing JavaScript doesn't get run in documents called by <link>). Then, after the window.print() line, use JavaScript to check and see if the cookie exists. If it does, you know they printed it. You still won't know if it printed sucessfully since their printer could have been out of paper, but you'd know if they clicked "Ok" or "Cancel" on the print dialog.

Adam
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tviman · Mar 25, 2004

The best you could do is check if the button was clicked, as Adam0101 states. Printing functions are passed to the print spooler and the printer interacts with the spooler rather than the application. If you get return codes back to your javascript function, you'd have a huge security hole not only through your PC but into your entire network!

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Can javascript tell if a print job was successful? How?

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