Re: Announce: D_Bus/Ada, talk with your desktop in Ada

[Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>]

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:17:30 +0000 (UTC)
Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch> wrote:

> I'm proud to announce the first release of D_Bus/Ada.
> 
> The D_Bus/Ada library provides an Ada binding to the D-Bus message bus
> used for inter-process communication on most modern Linux desktop
> systems.

For those who are wondering what to do with this, here is an example:
http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/dbus-ada/notify/

In summary:

   Name_A : Arguments.Basic.String_Type := +"ada.notify";
   Replaces_ID_A : Arguments.Basic.U_Int32_Type := +33;
   App_Icon_A : Arguments.Basic.String_Type := +"";
   Summary_A : Arguments.Basic.String_Type := +"Hello";
   Body_A : Arguments.Basic.String_Type := +"Hello, World from Ada!";
   ...
begin

   -- Arguments
   Args.Append (Name_A);
   ...

   Result := Connection.Call_Blocking
     (Connection  => Conn,
      Destination => "org.freedesktop.Notifications",
      Path        => "/org/freedesktop/Notifications",
      Iface       => "org.freedesktop.Notifications",
      Method      => "Notify",
      Args        => Args);


After running the program, you should see a notification
with text "Hello, World from Ada!" on your GNOME/KDE desktop.

-- 
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/

PS. For some reason dbus-ada does not allow me to use/serialize
empty arrays, so I fill the arrays with dummy data in my code.