printRanges

Type

property

Summary

Reports the pages that should be printed in the next print job.

Syntax

set the printRanges to <rangesList>

get the printRanges

Description

Use the printRanges property to specify ranges of pages to be printed.

If the printRanges is set to a list of ranges, LiveCode will automatically skip pages not in the range. Otherwise it is up to the application to print the appropriate pages.

If an application wishes to handle the skipping of pages, it can do so by setting the printRanges property to "all" before starting the printing loop.

note

LiveCode automatically handles coalescing overlapping ranges, e.g. 1-10,5-25,23 will result in the range being 1-25.

To have an effect, this property must be set before calling open printing.

Examples

set the printRanges to the text of field "Ranges" of group "Printer Settings"

set the printRanges to "1-5,10,12-20"

Related

command: open printing, answer printer

property: printPageNumber

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 2.9

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile