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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