I've written the following test script after trying to get a dcop progress bar to work with kdialog under Kubuntu 8.10 and KDE4 in a much longer and more complex script.

#! /bin/bash
dcopRef=$(kdialog --title "DCOP Progress" --progressbar "Initializing . . ." 12)
echo $dcopRef
dcop $dcopRef setProgress 1
dcop $dcopRef setLabel "Step 1"
sleep 3
dcop $dcopRef setProgress 2
dcop $dcopRef setLabel "Step 2"
sleep 3
dcop $dcopRef close

Upon executing the script I get the following output. The dialog for the progress bar is created with the title shown above.

org.kde.kdialog-7234 /ProgressDialog
object not accessible
object not accessible
object not accessible
object not accessible
call failed

I can get along without the progress bar, but it looks neater with it. Any thoughts greatly appreciated? TIA

There is no such method as setProgress in kdialog.

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qdbus org.kde.kdialog-31398 /ProgressDialog


shows me this:

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property readwrite bool org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.autoClose
property readwrite int org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.maximum
property readwrite int org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.value
method void org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.close()
method void org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.setLabelText(QString label)
method void org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.showCancelButton(bool value)
method bool org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.wasCancelled()
method QDBusVariant org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get(QString interface_name, QString property_name)
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set(QString interface_name, QString property_name, QDBusVariant value)
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect()


neverendingo wrote:There is no such method as setProgress in kdialog.

And the command should be qdbus, not dcop

I guess it could be something like this

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qdbus $dcopRef org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.setValue 1
qdbus $dcopRef org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.setLabelText "Step 1"


Cheers,
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Properties are not methods thus setting the progress will not work.
Try this instead:

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qdbus $dcopRef org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog value 1

As you can see you write properties by calling org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set with the property path, name, and new value. You may wish to set the maximum property as well, so your script would end up looking like this:

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 #! /bin/bash
 dcopRef=$(kdialog --title "DCOP Progress" --progressbar "Initializing . . ." 12)
 echo $dcopRef
 qdbus $dcopRef org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog maximum 3
 qdbus $dcopRef org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog value 1
 qdbus $dcopRef org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.setLabelText "Step 1"
 sleep 3
 qdbus $dcopRef org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog value 2
 qdbus $dcopRef org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.setLabelText "Step 2"
 sleep 3
 qdbus $dcopRef org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog value 3
 qdbus $dcopRef org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.close