Re: Get list of printers

I have created Issue http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117769 to 
request the IDL documentation.

    Bernard

Message de Bernard Marcelly  date 2011-04-08 13:47 :
>
> 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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