dcop incompatibility?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 13:36, Michael Reiher wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The old Kwintv uses:
>
>   QByteArray data;
>   m_bHaveKDESaver = kapp->dcopClient()->findObject("kdesktop",
>                                                    "KScreensaverIface",
>                                                    "enable(bool)",
>                                                    data,
>                                                    m_screenSaverApp,
>                                                    m_screenSaverObj);
>
> to detect whether there is a KDE screensaver available. This used to work
> fine. But recently I noticed, that it obviously doesn't anymore(and thus
> the screensaver, isn't disabled anymore). findObject() apparently doesn't
> return true anymore, even though the dcop object exists. So, has
> dcop/dcopclient changed in an incompatible way?

The above snippet suggests that you call a function that takes a bool as 
argument, but you don't seem to pass any arguments at all to it. I think DCOP 
now catches that case and fails. Previously it could crash in such situation 
(with types other than bool).

Cheers,
Waldo
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