I have an applet which has 2 methods that I want to use. On the first method I am getting the client printers list.
I want to use this printer list on my HTML page in a combo. The user is expected to choose a printers from this combo. After that, the user will click a button to do some operations. After clicking that button and finishing those operations, I want to call the second method of my applet, which gets two parameters, one is a file object, other is a printer object that user already selected.
My questions are:
How can I get the printer list and use it on my HTML page after page loads?
How can I send parameters to second method of my applet after clicking the button?
To have my applet work;
1- I exported the applet as jar file(named as printApplet.jar) and copied it under the same folder as my xhtml page.
2- I put the applet in xhtml as below;
<applet id="myApplet"
code="com.xxx.yyy.console.action.PrintApplet"
archive="printApplet.jar" width="1" height="1">
</applet>
3- I created a method `enter code here`in the applet which gets printer names as string and has comma(,) between the names.
4- I called the applet methods using javascript as below;
<script type="text/javascript" >
//<![CDATA[
function getPrinters() {
var aplt = document.getElementById("myApplet");
var printers = aplt.getPrinterNames();
var p = printers.split(',');
var c = document.getElementById("combo");
for ( var i = 0; i < p.length; i++) {
var o = document.createElement("option");
o.text = p[i];
o.value = i;
try {
c.add(o, null); //Standard
} catch (error) {
c.add(o); // IE only
}
}
}
//]]>
</script>