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From: Ian Clifton <ian.clifton@chem.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Empty arrays & libdbusada
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:19:10 +0100
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I’m trying to learn a bit about controlling programs through D-bus. I
can make things happen with the “D-feet” tool, calling methods in
ork.gtk.Actions and org.gtk.Application, supplying empty arrays (notated
as “[]”) for un‐needed parameters. But when I try to do the equivalent
in Ada code using libdbusada, I hit a snag—libdbusada doesn’t seem to be
able to handle empty arrays. Does anyone know of a way round this?
Thanks,
-- 
Ian ◎