[RESOLVED] Printing a specific movieclip

[jf332]

Hi! I have a swf with multiple movieclips on the stage. The user interaction involves adding images to one of the movieclips (the one outlined in red in the image below). I would like the user to then be able to print the movieclip that they were adding images to...NOT the whole stage.

I can kind of do this by specifying the print area, but I would rather not do this as it also prints some overlapping images (see image below).

I thought I remembered there being a way in AS2 to just print one of the movieclips on the stage, but I can't figure out how to do it in AS3.

Thanks for any help.

[cancerinform]

When you use addPage you enter only the name of the MovieClip.

var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
pj.addPage(mc);
pj.send();

[jf332]

Thanks cancerinform, I have actually tried that before, and it won't let me pass the movieclip like that (I guess it has to be a Sprite?). I get the following error when I try to do that:

Error #2057: The page could not be added to the print job.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.printing::PrintJob/addPage()

This was the code I had tried:

function printGirl (e:MouseEvent):void {
    var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
    pj.addPage(mainStage_mc);
    pj.send();
}


print_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, printGirl); 

I have also tried this code, and it prints a blank page and the mainStage_mc movieclip disappears from the stage:

function printGirl (e:MouseEvent):void {
    var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
    var mySprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
    mySprite.addChild(mainStage_mc); 
    myPrintJob.start();
    var myOptions:PrintJobOptions = new PrintJobOptions();
    myOptions.printAsBitmap = true;
    myPrintJob.addPage(mySprite, null, myOptions);
    myPrintJob.send();
} 

Thanks again for any help!

[cancerinform]

You need to add start:

var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
pj.start();
pj.addPage(mainStage_mc);
pj.send();

[jf332]

Thanks! That did it!