[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] osso_initialize()

[From: Luca Donaggio]

Have you checked that the constant PACKAGE_VERSION has exactly the same
value (1.0.0) as in the line "Version=" in your .desktop file? If they're
not the same osso_initialize() will fail!

Luca D.

2006/3/9, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>:
>
> On 3/9/06, sami.ronkainen at nokia.com <sami.ronkainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Continuing on the same subject...could someone point out what I'm doing
> > wrong? I'm trying to put the most simple helloworld application and
> > start it from the menu. I created the .deb package, installed it - but
> > with no joy. I can run the program from xterm but not start it from the
> > menu. In fact, if I try to start it there, the weirdest thing happens -
> > I am no longer able to start *any* application from the menu.
> >
> > Anyway, here's how I call osso_initialize:
> >
> >     osso_context_t* osso_ctx;
> >     osso_ctx=osso_initialize(PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, FALSE,
> > NULL);
> >
> > ..and at the end of the program I call     osso_deinitialize(osso_ctx);
> >
> > Then, my hello-world-spr.desktop file looks like this:
> >
> >         [Desktop Entry]
> >         Encoding=UTF-8
> >         Version=1.0.0
> >         Type=Application
> >         Name=SaminHelloWorld
> >         Exec=/var/lib/install/usr/bin/hello-world-spr
> >         Icon=qgn_list_gene_default_app
> >         X-Osso-Service=hello-world-spr
>
>
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-names
>
> states that interface names cannot have a hyphen (although bus names
> can, but since libosso functions use the same name for both...), so
> that's at least wrong.
>
> > Now, I am completely puzzled so anyone spotting my mistakes from the
> > above would deserve my eternal gratitude! :-) My maemo environment on
> > the Linux PC is rather old (from late October 2005), could there be
> > anything related to that?
>
> Shouldn't matter in this regard in my opinion.
>
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