Feature: Allow silent printing
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
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Describe the solution you'd like
First of all, thank you very much for this project. :)
As a devleoper, I would like to have the option to print a page "silently", meaning without showing the print dialog.
This is usually used in kiosk environments, e.g. for printing photos.
Electron already does this with the webContents.print function.
Wails only has the WindowPrint function which calls window.print (see frontend.go.
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Research direction
Start with WindowPrint and the referenced v2/internal/frontend/desktop/windows/frontend.go implementation, then compare the platform-specific printing paths. Use Electron's webContents.print options as the behavioral reference. Done means Wails exposes a silent-print option for kiosk-style printing without showing the print dialog.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
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- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
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