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Karen,
I don't think any of those solutions you suggest are allowed for an applet.
...Conrad

Karen Robbins Rumments wrote:

> Hi,
>         Since JAVA has too many bugs in their getPrintJob on windows, and since
> this complaint has been ignored since 1.1beta3 (earliest reference)...
> you cant print on win 95 without the dialog box popping up, resolution
> for the print is stuck at 72 dpi, properties are not documented nor are
> the accessable (they are ignored) on win95, and on and on... different
> bug reports show this as a real bug, no bug due to this being the way
> they designed it, an enhancement to be added (they actually put back
> some more bugs in 1.1.5!)
>         Sad part is that if you added up all the votes on just those things
> that have to do with getPrintJob working toghether it would be in the
> lower third of the top 25!!!
>
> those wanting to double check my efforts and research can look and see
> bug reports 4032122,4065526,4045174,4036938,4067405,4029565,4036068,
> there are others but these providide the bes overlap.
>
> so now my solutioin... i would either have my applet call a c++ platform
> specific module (not sure applets are ever allowed to do this).
>
> Start up a c++ platform specific program and pass it the information.
>
> create a plugin/activex pair to be installed and called by the applet..
>
> somehow open a direct output to a serial port... (like with portio, but
> i would rather not go this way)
>
> any help on tracking down how to do any of these or any other ideas
> would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Karen R Rumments