<div>Thanks to all for the info, and I've actually just started to look at bt-plugin.c.</div>
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<div>I am sorry for the previous question, I sent it before I was quite finished editing. So, to add on a bit to what I asked - and to get at what I was really asking:</div>
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<div>It seems to me that most 3rd party applications will want to have a desktop plugin to launch them. In fact, I can imagine people wanting more web links on their desktop than one.</div>
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<div>So, I'm trying to write a simple generic 'launcher' for a Maemo application. Would I be better off to use D-Bus instead? (is it safe to assume all applications will be a D-BUS service?)</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Brad.</div>
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<div>PS Tomas - I was looking at bt-plugin.c and was wondering if it would be fairly trivial to add in support for some of the extra keys on the Nokia keyboard? And I suppose sending a signal to keep the screen active is not easy to do? (I'd think if it was you would have added it).
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tomas Junnonen</b> <<a href="mailto:tomas.junnonen@nokia.com">tomas.junnonen@nokia.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">ext Brad Burleson wrote:<br>> I'm probably doing something stupid, but I'm trying to write a home<br>> plug-in that executes a shell script (which, in turn, will eventually
<br>> launch some application). I hacked the code from one of the nokia<br>> 'hello-world-app' programs and except for struggling with the gnu build<br>> tools (and my own ignorance) things are going well.<br>>
<br>> My code looks like this:<br>><br>> execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "pplay", (char *)0);<br>><br>> When I do this within a callback, as soon as the button is clicked the
<br>> screen turns white and the script - and application - runs, but the UI<br>> is broken - hard to explain, but it's not drawn completely and the only<br>> function that seems to work is to close the program. At which point,
<br>> the 770 reboots.<br>><br>> (my feeble mind says it must be related to the [l]eave part of execl())<br>><br>> Any tips on how to execute a shell script (or any binary) from a maemo<br>> application?
<br><br>The home plugins do not have their own main loop but use the desktop's,<br>so when you call execl the desktop process image is in fact replaced<br>with that of the called program.<br><br>As pete said, you should use the g_spawn_* functions instead. In
<br>practice you should only ever be using the async versions in the home<br>plugins and statusbar applets, as they will not block updating of the<br>desktop while your child process runs. If you need an example of using<br>
g_spawn_async, take a look at the btkeyboards plugin at<br><a href="http://770.fs-security.com/keyboards.html">http://770.fs-security.com/keyboards.html</a>.<br><br>Regards,<br>Tomas<br></blockquote></div><br>