DBus signature for gtk objects

[Rafael Barbolo Lopes]

I want that for sharing Oficina (paint) activity through the mesh.
When a user enters in a shared drawing, the owner would send his pixmap for
this new user.
Maybe serializing the pixmap wouldn't be a bad idea, cause it's passed once
per user who join the activity and wouldn't let the activity slow after
loaded.
If you have any other advice, please let me know.

Thanks

2007/11/28, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
>
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 19:29 -0200, Rafael Barbolo Lopes wrote:
> > Is it possible to exchange gtk objects (a gtk.gdk.Pixmap) thought DBus
> > tubes?
> > If it is, can someone help me to find a way to do this?
> > I think it's necessary to create a BusObject, but I can't get it
> > working using this quick tutorial:
> >
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html#claiming-a-bus-name
>
> You cannot just use a remote object as if it was a gtk.gdk.Pixmap, they
> are just two very different pieces of code.
>
> My guess is that for doing this, you would need to get the Pixmap from
> the X server to the client side (Pixbuf), serialize it somehow, and pass
> it as a dbus.ByteArray or as a path to a temp file in disk (if that's
> possible in Rainbow). The other side would need to create a Pixbuf from
> it and send it to the server as a Pixmap.
>
> This process is not only convoluted, but will be also quite slow.
>
> Perhaps there is some way in X for two processes to share pixmaps, but I
> don't know about that.
>
> Why you want to do that? If you explain it, perhaps we'll be able to
> give better advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>


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Rafael Barbolo Lopes
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