3.4_release_blocker requested: [Bug 118032] getPrinter behavior changed between oo3.2.1 and oo3.3 - causing exception

[email protected] has asked  for 3.4_release_blocker:
Bug 118032: getPrinter behavior changed between oo3.2.1 and oo3.3 - causing
exception
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D118032

------- Additional Comments from [email protected]
I am maintaining an old Delphi app that works fine with oo3.2.1 and earlier=
.=20
Its interface with OpenOffice uses Bernard Marcelly's "OOo Tool".

Since oo3.3, getPrinter causes an exception as follows:

EVariantBadVarTypeError=20
Description: "Invalid Variant Type...raised when a variant operation fails
because of a value that isn't a valid variant type."

It looks like the getPrinter method behaves differently since oo3.3.  Is th=
is
by design?  Perhaps there is a bug?

I would be very happy to look at the source code, but do not know how to ob=
tain
it.  I would want to compare the source of getPrinter between v3.2.1 and v3=
.3.

Regards
Julian Brewer

P.S. The code that throws the exception is marked (***) below.	I stress that
this all worked fine until v3.3:

docs[di].v :=3D StarDesktop.LoadComponentFromURL(URL, '_blank', 0, fileProp=
);

[...]

function ToOoDoc.docPrinterBusy( docIndex : integer) : boolean;
var
   queryPrinter : variant;
   i : integer;
begin
     result :=3D false;
     if not docs[docIndex].isOpen then exit;
(***)queryPrinter :=3D docs[docIndex].v.getPrinter;
     [...]
end;--=20
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