Sneaky Anvil Updates

[mark.breuss]

I have no Idea how long this has been there, but you can print pdf media objects now from anvil code: (opens the browsers print dialogue)

This was quite the revelation for us since we print a lot of pdf files and use several hacks and js libraries for that like: https://printjs.crabbly.com/

Has anyone used this feature before?

EDIT:
We did some tests and ran in to this error sometimes:

Print_media function does not work constantly

Dear guys, I cannot put this post into bug reports, therefore I list it here. In my case the anvil.media call print_media seems to not work constantly. At first the below showed code works fine until some timeout (after 15-30 minutes) an internal error arises (code below). Do anybody of you know what the reason could be or if this function is still in process? CODE SNIPET: try: print('Before printing') anvil.media.print_media(resp) print('After printing') except Exception as e: pr…