Detecting if the user pressed "Print" on the print dialog that was called programatically

I am building a web application wherein the user can print a panel and its contents. I found a code as seen here and tweaked it as such:

Ext.define('My_app_name.override.form.Panel', {
    override: 'Ext.form.Panel', 

    print: function(pnl) {

        if (!pnl) {
            pnl = this;
        }

        // instantiate hidden iframe

        var iFrameId = "printerFrame";
        var printFrame = Ext.get(iFrameId);

        if (printFrame === null) {
            printFrame = Ext.getBody().appendChild({
                id: iFrameId,
                tag: 'iframe',
                cls: 'x-hidden',
                style: {
                    display: "none"
                }
            });
        }

        var cw = printFrame.dom.contentWindow;
        var stylesheets = "";
        var markup;
        // instantiate application stylesheets in the hidden iframe

        var printTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(function(){
            // print the iframe
            cw.print();

            // destroy the iframe
            Ext.fly(iFrameId).destroy();

        });

        var strTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(function(){
            var str = Ext.String.format('<html><head>{0}</head><body>{1}</body></html>',stylesheets,markup);


            // output to the iframe
            cw.document.open();
            cw.document.write(str);
            cw.document.close();

            // remove style attrib that has hardcoded height property
            //             cw.document.getElementsByTagName('DIV')[0].removeAttribute('style');
            printTask.delay(500);

        });

        var markUpTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(function(){
            // get the contents of the panel and remove hardcoded overflow properties
            markup = pnl.getEl().dom.innerHTML;
            while (markup.indexOf('overflow: auto;') >= 0) {
                markup = markup.replace('overflow: auto;', '');
            }
            while (markup.indexOf('background: rgb(255, 192, 203) !important;') >= 0) {
                markup = markup.replace('background: rgb(255, 192, 203) !important;', 'background: pink !important;');
            }

            strTask.delay(500);
        });


        var styleSheetConcatTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(function(){

            // various style overrides
            stylesheets += ''.concat(
                "<style>", 
                ".x-panel-body {overflow: visible !important;}",
                // experimental - page break after embedded panels
                // .x-panel {page-break-after: always; margin-top: 10px}",
                "</style>"
            );

            markUpTask.delay(500);
        });


        var styleSheetCreateTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(function(){


            for (var i = 0; i < document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
                stylesheets += Ext.String.format('<link rel="stylesheet" href="{0}" />', document.styleSheets[i].href);
            }
            styleSheetConcatTask.delay(500);
        });

        styleSheetCreateTask.delay(500);
    }
});

I placed the delays to let the function be more consistent in printing out grids and photos as it takes time to "assemble" from the styles.

After the function "assembles" the data to be printed, it calls the browsers native printing methods. My issue right now is that I don't know if I the user presses "Print" or "Cancel" in their web browsers Print Dialog.

Is there a way to create a callback for this override function so I can know if the user really did push through with printing or cancelled the printing job?

Update

I checked the link in mindparses' comment below which led me to this page. I tried to implement the code by doing such below:

var beforePrint = function() {
    console.log('before print');
    form.print();
};
var afterPrint = function() {
    console.log('after print');
};

if (window.matchMedia) {
    var mediaQueryList = window.matchMedia('print');
    mediaQueryList.addListener(function(mql) {
        if (mql.matches) {
            console.log('mql matches');
            beforePrint();
        } else {
            console.log('mql did NOT match');
            afterPrint();
        }
    });
}

Where form is my form and print is the print override function above.

All of these codes are in a button listener.

However, the issue I have with this solution is that it only seems to work if the user presses Ctrl/Command + P. It does not work if the print dialog is programatically called like in my override function above. A second concern I have is that the function triggers when the user issues the Ctrl/Command + P command. What I want is to know when the user really clicks on the "Print" command in the dialog and not when a Print Dialog box appears.

Update

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