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use dbus to hit the play button in vlc
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| /* | |
| g++ cppdbus.cpp -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/ -lglib-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 | |
| */ | |
| #include <iostream> | |
| #include <gio/gio.h> | |
| int main() | |
| { | |
| GDBusConnection* conn = NULL; | |
| GError* error = NULL; | |
| conn = g_bus_get_sync( G_BUS_TYPE_SESSION, NULL, &error ); | |
| g_assert_no_error( error ); | |
| if (conn == NULL) | |
| std::cout << "Error!" <<std::endl; | |
| GError* error2 = NULL; | |
| GDBusProxy* proxy = NULL; | |
| proxy = g_dbus_proxy_new_sync( conn, | |
| G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NONE, | |
| NULL, | |
| "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc", | |
| "/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2", | |
| "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", | |
| NULL, | |
| &error2 ); | |
| g_assert_no_error( error2 ); | |
| if( proxy == NULL ) | |
| std::cout << "Error!!" << std::endl; | |
| g_dbus_proxy_call( proxy, | |
| "Play", // I put anything here, compiler doesnt complain, program doesn't crash. | |
| NULL, | |
| G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE, | |
| -1, | |
| NULL, | |
| NULL, | |
| NULL ); | |
| } |
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I didn't free anything or clean the code up or even make it do anything particularly interesting. Just spent a while reading about and playing with the gnome dbus bindings and finally have a snippet that actually does something.