[Kommander-devel] Beginner in Kommander

[Eric Laffoon]

On Sunday 11 September 2005 11:01 am, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new with Kommander, and I'm looking for advice. Is this list the right
> place? Sorry for the noise, if it is not.

This is the list for people working on developing Kommander. You want the 
Kommander list, for developing using Kommander.
>
> I have several questions. I'm developing a DCOP service program for the
> ALSA Sequencer (MIDI), trying to simplify the development of simple
> programs and scripts using the ALSA infrastructure, whose API is big and
> complicated. My program may be used from bash scripts using the 'dcop'
> executable, but more probably will be used for nice Kommander graphic
> utilities.

Interesting... I'm currently trying to get _any_ sequencer to work on my AMD64 
with AC97 sound
>
> First question. I'm thinking on a name like 'ALSA MIDI Kommander', or
> something like that, if there are not complaints from you.

That's up to you, but you may want to be careful about an overly general name.
>
> Second, and today's last. In my kommander scripts I need to call DCOP
> functions as soon as a combobox item is selected, or a slider is moved. To
> do this I'm connecting the slot .execute() of one script widget to the
> signals activated() or valueChanged() of the visual widget. Is there a
> better way to do this?

The signal/slot method is currently the only way to do this.
>
> Thanks for your great programs.
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
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Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module