Hi Zack, I've read some of the postings today about calling function of a KDE app from a script. I've build the LiveConnectExtension for KParts for khtml (see kdelibs/kparts/browserextension.h). I also couldn't find a way to use DCOP for event (signal) handling, without knowing it's exact signature in advance. Not to mention the security problems exposing DCOP to a javascript in from a web page. Here a summary of my approach: There are now two applications using LiveConnect, kmultimedia/kaboodle and kdelibs/khtml/java. The LiveConnectExtension is based on how kjs works, 'put' and 'get' for property settings and 'get' followed by 'call' for function calls. Array's are properties in javascript (eg. myarry[5] = 0 becomes put("5", "0", objref_of_myarray) where objref_of_myarray is from a 'get' first). The advantage of this approach is that khtml doesn't need to know or parse a kparts interface, only the kpart itself and the programmer of the script has to know. It's also powerful enough to do about anything in the Java VM, allowed by the Java's Security Manager of course. The only thing missing, is iterating an object's method/properties from a script (could be added though). If the kpart knows the scripting engine, it can use the event mechanism, for evaluating scripts in it's host. See kdelibs/khtml/java/org/kde/javascript/JSObject.java as an example of this. The Java to Javascript calls are a Javascript application injected in the HTML page. It's also simple enough for adding a stop/start/setLooping interface for a mediaplayer in a few lines of code (see kdemultimedia/kaboodle/player.* as an example). You can try

play stop in khtml for this. Hope this gives you some ideas. Regards, Koos Vriezen >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<