Hi all!!

i'm programming with amarok 2 and dbus. i can call without problem all methods but one: GetStatus in /Player. First of all i don't understand why it returns four values three of which are always 0. but anyway using dbus-send it works, but i can't get it via qtdbus. i tried with qdbusreply but the reply is not valid. qdbusreply makes it crash when i try to read inside the list. and then i tried like suggested here: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Porting+KDELibs+to+D-Bus just upper than "Usage of DCOPObject" but it returns always 0 and the list has only 1 item.

i don't know what to do, can you guys help me?

The qdbus tool cannot yet deal with complex data structures; it can currently only handle strings (support for complex types will be in Qt 4.5).

This means that you will have to use a real D-Bus library to access this function. Such libraries exist for many languages, like C++ (part of Qt), Ruby, etc.


PS: Maybe an option for you could be to implement your program as a true Amarok 2 script, in QtScript. Then you don't need to access the D-Bus interface at all.

thanks for the answer. i think i will use qtscript. i can use it to make a plasmoid for the kde desktop, isn't it?

No, you can't make a KDE desktop plasmoid with it. It's meant for internal scripting, like Firefox extensions.

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/ ... _HowTo_2.0

ok, but if i want i can do a script that provides some d-bus methods that i need and that are absent in the mpris standard, right?

Interesting idea It might be possible. Worth a try.

mmh, as i can see in the wiki entry the amarok api for the scripts isn't so big, or has the page to be completed? for example i can't see calls for the title, album and so on. but i was thinking: instead of a script can i write a plasma dataengine for amarok that takes the infos and provides them through dbus or another way to my kde plasmoid?