[PyKDE] Cannot use KUniqueApplication with dcop

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:50, JIm Bublitz wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 14:58, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a KUniqueApplication accessible via dcop, but I'm
> > getting the following error:
> >
> > dcop-testapp: ERROR: Communication problem with dcop-testapp, it probably
> > crashed.
> >
> > If I change KUniqueApplication to KApplication, it works just fine. Does
> > anyone know what's going on here? How can I debug this further?
> >
> > Attached small program illustrates the problem (It's mostly the same as
> > in my previous post).
>
> I found some time to look at this a little more. Your short sample app will
> "work" if you comment out the attach() call. You can also convert
> PyKDE/examples/example_dcopexport.py to KUniqueApplication (modify the
> import statement and the KApplication ctor call), and it will "work" from
> kdcop.
>
> I say "work" because I ran into some other problems I didn't try to
> resolve, and I'm not sure if they're bugs or normal operation. The first is
> that executing your sample app creates two processes (pids), and two
> entires in kdcop (one with a pid, one without). That doesn't seem to be a
> big deal.
>
> The other problem is that selecting "quit" via kdcop doesn't terminate the
> application when KUniqueApplication is used, but it just may be necessary
> to add some other code to accomplish that - I didn't try anything else. I'm
> not sure how KDE is written in that respect.

Thanks a lot for looking into this, Jim. I'll try it shortly.
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sebas

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