2008/6/7 Robert Wood <robert.wood@apostrophe.co.uk>:

> I'm trying to develop a little open source application to set-up and use
> Hauppauge boxes on Linux. I'm using KDevelop and have got to the stage
> where I can set-up the box and alter its settings just fine. However,
> what I would now like to do is embed a small mplayer Window within my
> application.
>
> It looks like QXEmbed is what I need to use, but no matter what I have
> tried I cannot get it to work. Someone helped by showing me how to do it
> qt4, but I'd really like to do it with the qt3 libraries as, AFAIK, most
> distributions come with qt3 libraries and not qt4 for the moment.
>
> I have tried the following code (sorry for horrible formatting):
>
>        QXEmbed *eframe = new QXEmbed(this);
>        eframe->setGeometry(0,0,1280,720);
>        eframe->show();
>        QProcess *mp = new QProcess(eframe);
>
>        mp->setArguments("/usr/bin/mplayer");
>        mp->addArgument(QString("-wid ") +
> QString::number(eframe->winId()));
>        mp->addArgument("/home/robertw/avocent.avi");
>
>        if (!mp->start())
>                {
>                textLabel1->setText("The application has not started");
>                }
>        eframe->setProtocol(QXEmbed::XEMBED);
>
>
> Now, I think *maybe* I need something like the next line (I realise it's
> not correct code):
>
>        eframe->embed(mp->winId());
>
> This doesn't work properly. You can see that eframe is being created
> because it overwrites an existing button, but mplayer is just not
> started. I have tried the same with konsole and the closest I could get
> was to remove the line where it is passed the window ID of eframe and
> then it would just run as a stand alone application.
>
> I am guessing that I am close to achieving what I need to do, but after
> several days of trying am getting nowhere at all.
>
> Would anyone be able to advise? I really would be most grateful!
>
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I think you're missing a QProcess::start() or equivalent, aren't you?

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Loïc Corbasson
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