[Gambas-user] DBus - How are signal data converted to Gambas data?

[Hans Lehmann]

Am 30.01.2018 um 14:47 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> As far as I remember, it was created to implement the DBus tray icon 
> protocol.
> For example, if you have a DBus method whose return value signature is 
> "ii" (two integers) :
> You create a new class named, for example, "MyDBusReturnValue" that 
> inherits "DBusValues", whose Signature constant returns "ii".
> You define the Gambas implementation of your method as returning a 
> "MyDBusReturnValue". And inside, you create a new object of that type, 
> assign to its Value property an array of integers, and return that 
> object.
> The internal marshalling routine will detect that MyDBusReturnValue 
> inherits DBusValues, and so will know what you want to do: it will 
> convert the Gambas array to the DBus values corresponding to the "ii" 
> signature.
> You have an example of that, with a more complex signature, with the 
> "_DbusMenuItemLayout" class in the 'gb.dbus.trayicon' component 
> project source code. 
Hello, Benoît,

Thank you very much for the information and the solution approach with 
the new class inherited by "DBusValues".

With kind regards

Hans