Where to start

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 13:05:14 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:39 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> Oh, do I have to create/register an object and interface (and signal
> name?) before referring to them in a message? I'll look into that.
> 

No, but they can be invalid. There are requirements on the format.

That is object paths have to be /foo/bar/baz and interfaces have to be
org.foo.Bar, roughly (see the spec for the complete requirements)

> So if the signals still don't work after I've fixed the first problem, I
> should replace my call to gtk_main with a loop containing
> gtk_main_iteration and check for dbus messages in the loop?

No, I'm saying the main loop stuff is what _should_ work. The GProxy
stuff is what probably doesn't work in 0.22.

Havoc




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