DCOP commands ?

[Santa's little helper]

I was just reading the "KDE - Help Center" for konsole.It says that
you can invoke konsole with the option --script file in order to

Allow the use of extended DCOP commands to paste text into sessions.

I have no idea what these DCOP commands are.Can someone give me
some pointers ?

[lakerdonald]

http://developer.kde.org/documentati...deqt/dcop.html

[Santa's little helper]

Thanks.I had a quick look.I'm still not clear what it's for.Can someone
give me a practical example where one would use this sort of
meachanism ? Also it doesn't seem to say what the file following
the --script option ought to contain.It only mentions C++ code.

[lakerdonald]

I'm not familiar with using it for scripts, but as I recall from a tutorial I read on it awhile ago, dealing with say konqueror, you could do:

dcop konqueror default openBrowserWindow www.foo.com

, and that would open www.foo.com in konqueror. To list what you can do with a specific DCOP-enabled application, just do:

dcop foo default

[Santa's little helper]

I just tried

dcop konsole default

and got

object 'default' in application 'konsole' not accessible

Specifying the full pathname for konsole didn't make any real
difference.

[lakerdonald]

Hmmm...guess my memory doesn't serve me that well...I guess it's:

dcop foo

[Santa's little helper]

dcop konsole gives No such application: 'konsole'
Needless to say I have konsole.

[lakerdonald]

dcop

will list all dcop-able apps.

[Santa's little helper]

That worked.Thanks.

It seems that konsole should have been followed by its process id.
But I only get a list of C++ functions so it still doesn't tell me what I
can do with it from the command line or just running the application.
Assuming that I can do something.

[lakerdonald]

I guess then:

dcop konsole-XXXX default

would give you the things you can do. And then just call those functions with whatever arguments it takes on the command line:

dcop konsole-XXXX default foo(bar, baz)