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Yehuda Shiran September 3, 2001
Delay Enforcement during Printing
Tips: September 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The following is a page definition in a print template:

<IE:DEVICERECT ID="page2" CLASS="masterstyle" MEDIA="print">
  <IE:LAYOUTRECT ID="layoutrect2" CLASS="contentstyle"
  ONLAYOUTCOMPLETE="setTimeout('CheckIfPrintRequested()', 100)"/>
</IE:DEVICERECT>
The page's LAYOUTRECT element has an event handler attached to it:

ONLAYOUTCOMPLETE="setTimeout('CheckIfPrintRequested()', 100)"
We want to call the function CheckIfPrintRequested() 100 milliseconds after the page is laid out. This is to ensure that the page won't be sent to the printer before the page's layout is complete and the event is consumed. A one millisecond interval would have been sufficient, but we want to play it safe.

To learn more about print templates, read Column 89 (Print Templates, Part I) and Column 91 (Print Templates, Part II: TemplatePrinter.) Download the Microsoft print template loader.


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