Canvas.showPrintPreview used for email

[atomatom]

I want to email the HTML from the print preview. The general thinking is create a print preview, then add an "Email" button which grabs the HTML from the print preview and sends it as a string to the server for emailing.

Sound reasonable?

I actually found my answer, but in case anyone else needs this (or has feedback on the approach)

  Canvas.getPrintHTML()

[atomatom]

This idea only half works. To get it to work correctly, I would also need to inject all the CSS. Ah well.

I guess I need to write server code to generate nice emails instead of using SmartGWT to render grids for me. And probably consider a report engine.

[Isomorphic]

When we do this, we just inject the CSS as well. Pretty straightforward.

[atomatom]

Is there any easy way get the current CSS or do I need to create a separate inline CSS definition/string to inject. I presume it is the latter, but if there is a way to get it automatically that would be cool. Otherwise it is Firebug and copy paste I guess.

[Isomorphic]

The styles are in the skin (skin_styles.css). Right now we don't have a separate file available with just the print styles, sorry.

[atomatom]

Can I load the css file as a string in GWT? The following does not work (and was a wretched hack to start with)

	HTMLPane style = new HTMLPane();
	String contentsURL = "[skin]/skin_styles.css";
	style.setContentsURL(contentsURL);
	style.draw();
	style.hide();
	String styleString = style.getContents();

Sorry for what is probably a pretty basic GWT question. I tried searching for it but could not find the code to load the contents of a URL into a string.