man page for dcop

[Chris Gow]

On November 18, 2004 04:07 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 21:36, Chris Gow wrote:
> > On November 18, 2004 03:10 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 20:10, Chris Gow wrote:
> > > > On November 18, 2004 01:22 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > > Which kind of information did you try to look up?
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know how to pass arguments of different types to
> > > > dcop. In particular, lists
> > >
> > > Hmm, good question.
> > > Not sure this is possible through the commandline interface.
> >
> > Pity. :( It would be nice to add. Maybe something like:
> > dcop someapp someFunctionThatTakesAList [element1, element2,
> > ...element_n]
>
> I had a look into the source of dcop and, suprise, the syntax is almost
> exactly like that :)
> The brackets have to be parameters of their own and if your shell uses them
> as well, you have to escape them.
>
> dcop someapp someninterface someFunction \[ element1 element2 element2 \]
> It is also possible to use parenthese ( ) as list delimiters.
I tried both the [ and (. On my system, both characters were passed directly 
to the function I was calling (dcop did not treat them specially). Is this a 
HEAD thing? I'm on 3.3

>
> > > Which function do you try to invoke?
> >
> > I want to add a 'Send Email' servicemenu in konqueror that launches
> > komposer with the file(s) I selected as attachments. I think the function
> > that I want to execute is:
> > int openComposer(QString to,QString cc,QString bcc,QString
> > subject,QString body,int hidden,KURL messageFile,KURL::List attachURLs)
> >
> > which I got from running: dcop kmail KMailIface
>
> If the dcop way doen't work out, you could use kmail's commandline
> interface. kmail --subject "subject" --body "message text" --attach file1
> --attach file2 "toaddress"
>
> Maybe you need --composer as well.
>
I guess I'll use that. I liked the dcop approach better though...
> Please report back if the dcop list thing worked as described.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

thanks

-- chris
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