Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Integrating GM into another application -www.plutohome.org

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Robert Rozman a écrit :
> thanks for info. Pardon me, I'm newbie (so I'm probably missing 
> something), but AFAIK (and could be easily wrong) dbus consists of 
> certain messages that control certain features of certain applications 
> that support it. And I guess that before controlling some app, you 
> probably have to know what messages will fire what events, etc....

Yes.

> If I take DBUS command line utility to send dbus messages to GM, what to 
> send to GM or where can I find more info about what to send on dbus to GM ?

src/dbus_component.h has and will have documentation.

> If anyone have few minutes to spare, I'd kindly ask for example lines 
> that will get me going...

The simpler to get a grasp at it is to see how it works in python.

For example to get a hold of the gnomemeeting helper :
import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
obj = bus.get_object ('net.gnomemeeting.helper', '/net/gnomemeeting/helper')
iface = dbus.Interface(obj, 'net.gnomemeeting.helper')

Then to use it :
iface.GetVersion()
iface.GetSupportedProtocols()

Or to get the calls managing features :
obj = bus.get_object ('net.gnomemeeting.instance', 
'/net/gnomemeeting/instance')
iface = dbus.Interface(obj, 'net.gnomemeeting.instance.calls')

Then use it :
iface.GetCallsList ()
iface.Connect ('sip:500 gnomemeeting net')

You have to know :
1) there is a historical first implementation of dbus connectivity in 
gnomemeeting which doesn't even compile with recent dbus versions ;
2) I updated the implementation in the opal branch recently, and it 
works (I even sent the code of a remote for it, see : 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-devel-list/2005-October/msg00010.html 
) ;
3) but I have code to obsolete the previous dbus code in gnomemeeting ; 
to know what is in, you should have a look here :
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-devel-list/2005-October/thread.html

This should help,

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