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From: Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch>
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Subject: Re: Empty arrays & libdbusada
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:35:01 -0000 (UTC)
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Hi Ian,

On 2016-06-28, Ian Clifton <ian.clifton@chem.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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,

Can you please provide a concrete example of what you are trying to do?
What happens if you just remove the empty array arguments?

Thanks!
- reto