Ah it was you! Sorry! Ok yeah. Well your code is pretty much exactly what i had now in mind for hal++. I guess i should start working on this right now. (Btw Paolo, i'll talk to you in #c++ once i get there the next time, i hope you're around, so we can talk some things through, i don't mean to just using your dbus c++ bindings without contributing back and that's something i'd like to ask you about, basically what still needs to be done) <div>On 11/27/06, P. Durante <<a href="mailto:shackan@gmail.com">shackan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 11/27/06, David Zeuthen <<a href="mailto:david@fubar.dk">david@fubar.dk</a>> wrote: > This sounds interesting however long term I'm hoping to get rid of > libhal all together and make applications move towards using D-Bus > bindings. > > For some languages / runtimes I think the plan is to create the bindings > classes at runtime (e.g. Mono, Java, Python), for others (e.g. glib and > probably plain C++) I think the idea is to generate stub classes. > > Did you check out dbus-cpp that Murray Cumming wrote 1-2 years ago? > >  <a href="http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-cpp/">http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-cpp/</a> > > Perhaps it would be useful if dbus-cpp included a binding tool that took > D-Bus introspection XML and generated stubs. Unless this is the case > already? Thanks. > As far as I know that code is discontinued, the bindings page[1] mentions a new project, which does indeed have a tool to generate stubs from XML descriptions, unfortunately it currently generates only server-side stubs (adding client support is the first item in the TODO file), in the mean time clients have to bind signals and invoke remote methods directly (but patches are obviously welcome), as it's done in one of the examples [2] (which, just so happens to interface with HAL) [1] <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fDBusBindings"> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fDBusBindings</a> [2] <a href="http://dev.openwengo.org/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/branches/wengophone-dbus-api/libs/dbus/examples/hal">http://dev.openwengo.org/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/branches/wengophone-dbus-api/libs/dbus/examples/hal </a> regards, Paolo </blockquote></div>