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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: DCOP (Was: Kmail API?)
From:       Hans Dijkema <h.dijkema () hum ! org>
Date:       2000-07-31 18:18:19
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Thanks for the information Waldo.


Op Mon, 31 Jul 2000, schreef Waldo Bastian:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Hans Dijkema wrote:
> > > > Could this be added to kmail?
> > >
> > > Would be nice to make something like this available via DCOP as well.
> >
> > Sorry, but what is DCOP???
> 
> DCOP is KDE's Desktop Communication Protocol. It allows to make calls from 
> one application to another. It is based around an object model similair to the
> one used by Qt. An application can create a so called DCOPObject that defines
> an interface that can be called from other applications.
> 
> See for more information e.g. a recent version of kdelibs/dcop/HOWTO. KMail 
> defines a DCOP interface in kmailIface.h, the other kmailIface files get 
> autogenerated from this. 
> 
> There is also a DCOP browser which shows all running applications with a DCOP
> interface, shows which objects they have available and the functions that they
> define. (see e.g. kdelibs/dcop/client/dcop)
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
-- 

Groeten,
Hans Dijkema

hdijkema@be-value.nl
h.dijkema@hum.org

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