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From: Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch>
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Subject: Re: Announce: D_Bus/Ada, talk with your desktop in Ada
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:02:56 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-12-05, Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote:
> For those who are wondering what to do with this, here is an example:
> http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/dbus-ada/notify/
[snip]
> After running the program, you should see a notification
> with text "Hello, World from Ada!" on your GNOME/KDE desktop.

Thanks for this example Tero. With your permission it is now included in
D_Bus/Ada. I slightly simplified it, see [1].

> 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.

I have to look into this. I'll try to add support for empty containers
in the next release.

- reto

[1] - http://git.codelabs.ch/?p=dbus-ada.git;a=blob;f=examples/notify/notify.adb