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.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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