Re: Get list of printers

Am Donnerstag, den 07.04.2011, 09:48 -0400 schrieb Andrew Douglas
Pitonyak:
> Can I obtain a list of printers using Star Basic?
> 
> It was my understanding that OOo has always had an easy method of 
> obtaining a list of printers, but that this method was not available 
> from Basic. With OOo 1.x and 2.x, I issued the ".uno:Print" dispatch and 
> then used an interesting set of routines to directly manipulate the 
> print dialog to obtain a list of printers (wish I could say it was my idea).
> 
> The print dialog changed and this "cheater" method no longer works. I 
> can pursue this method and modify it to work with the latest version of 
> OOo (well, maybe I can), but, it would be nice if there were an easier way.
> 
> I had hoped it would be as easy as
> 
>   CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.PrinterServer")
> 
> Unfortunately, the returned object is not usable.
> 

Once upon a while I implemented a BASIC macro parsing the printer
configuration INI-style files. If that file format is still in use I
could dig for that macro and post it here or maybe make a snippet out of
it.

Their names where (on FreeBSD):

  userdefname = resolveDollarVar("$(user)/psprint/psprint.conf")
  globaldefname = resolveDollarVar("$(inst)/share/psprint/psprint.conf")


Marc


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