Copy weblistbox to PDF

Targets Web
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Hi All

I have a listbox on a webpage which is populated and I’m looking to create a copy of it to pdf as a web file.

I can ‘draw’ the listbox line by line and populate the results from the weblistbox content but that seems a looooonnnnggg way round. Looking at the docs I can see pdflistbox which is ‘a standard listbox that can be embedded into a pdf document.’ which to me suggests it can just be copied … somehow ! but cant figure out how.

Any pointers or examples would be welcome

Thanks

Grant

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Have-you downloaded the Xojo Examples (from the IDE) ?

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Hi

Thanks for the response , unfortunately I cant find anything with pdflistbox or copying a weblist box in the examples.

thanks
Grant

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In my MBS seminar on REST PDF I converted a WebListBox to HTML then converted that to a PDF using wkHTML2PDF. The link to the code is: https://www.holymackerelsoftware.com/Downloads/ExportHTMLToPDF.zip

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you must look at the pdftable class, make your listbox (which must be a subclass of the xojo listbox) have the class interface PDFTableDataSource, to send the data to the pdfdocument you create using the pdfdocument.addtable method.

https://documentation.xojo.com/api/pdf/pdftable.html#pdftable

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Hi David

thanks for the response , it looks as if the code required MBS plugins which I haven’t got.

Thanks anyway

Grant

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Hi Jean

Thanks for the response I’m not sure my skills are up to your suggestion without so further expansion if your willing.

Thanks

Grant

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here is an explaination how to do it

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Hi Jean

That looks perfect, I will study with great interest.