Thanks to both,

this is a must have bit of functionality ..
for gadget based interfaces!

"Zack Weinberg" <za...@panix.com> wrote in message news:r62dnejc_k946ptmnz2dnuvz_skdn...@mozilla.org...
On 2013-01-30 2:23 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote:
However, be warned that there are patches in bug 629500 to get rid of
nsIPrinterEnumerator entirely (though that bug seems to have stalled a
bit, so I don't know how soon that will happen).
It's blocked on Windows-specific fixes (bug 693230) -- it looks like 
there's a patch in there, but nobody bothered to ask for review and it's 
also not clear whether it actually works.  If anyone has low-level Windows 
GUI programming experience and spare brain cycles I could really use help 
with that part.
The intention is still to remove nsIPrinterEnumerator entirely.  All the 
tier-1 platforms nowadays discourage use of the OS-level printer 
enumeration APIs, because they have to talk to the network and may block 
the calling thread for an indefinite period.  You're supposed to just let 
the OS-supplied print dialog boxes figure it out for you.
zw 
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