Re: Get list of printers

Hi,
Issue 117765 is good news.
But this service com.sun.star.awt.PrinterServer is not documented in the IDL ! 
Only its interface. I hate using undocumented API. Can it be also corrected ?

Regards
   Bernard

Message de Frank Schönheit  date 2011-04-08 09:28 :
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>>>> I had hoped it would be as easy as
>>>>
>>>> CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.PrinterServer")
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, the returned object is not usable.
>>>
>>> "Usable" is a relative term. You can always do something like this:
>>>
>>> oServer = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.PrinterServer")
>>> oCore = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")
>>> oClass = oCore.forName("com.sun.star.awt.XPrinterServer")
>>> oMethod = oClass.getMethod("getPrinterNames")
>>> aNames = oMethod.invoke(oServer, Array())
>>>
>>> Niklas
>> Wow, thanks..... Thanks to Ariel, I have a few links, one of which
>> brings me here:
>>
>>
>> http://openoffice.org/projects/api/lists/dev/archive/2008-08/message/66
>
> So this means the problem with this absolutely unusable (despite the
> CoreReflection hoops) service is known for more than 2.5 years already,
> and nobody of us developers ever cared? Shame on us!
>
> Known as http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117765 now,
> fixed in CWS fs35a.
>
> Ciao
> Frank
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