dbus-cxx Library

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About

dbus-cxx is a C++ wrapper for dbus. It exposes the C API to allow direct manipulation and relies on sigc++ to provide an OO interface. Also included is dbus-cxx-xml2cpp to generate proxy and adapter interfaces from DBus XML introspection-like documents.

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dbus-cxx Sourceforge Project Page

The dbus-cxx sourceforge project page can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbus-cxx

News

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Download dbus-cxx packages or get the source code

dbus-cxx is available in Fedora 9 and higher.

Fedora package description

• dbus-cxx - Libraries needed to run applications
• dbus-cxx-devel - Headers and libraries for developing applications with dbus-cxx
• dbus-cxx-doc - Developer's documentation including devhelp docs
• dbus-cxx-tools - Development tools, et. al. such as dbus-cxx-xml2cpp
• dbus-cxx-glibmm - Libraries need to run applications that integrate dbus-cxx into glibmm
• dbus-cxx-glibmm-devel - Headers and libraries for developing applications that will integrate dbus-cxx into glibmm

dbus-cxx is available for Ubuntu via launchpad.

Installing from Launchpad

• Here is a useful page on setting up a Launchpad PPA in Ubuntu: http://launchpad.net/+help/soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html
• Here is the Launchpad PPA page: https://launchpad.net/~rvinyard/+archive/ppa
• If you just want the basic PPA info:

     deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvinyard/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
     deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvinyard/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
  

Ubuntu package description

• dbus-cxx0 - Libraries needed to run applications
• dbus-cxx-dev - Headers and libraries for developing applications with dbus-cxx
• dbus-cxx-doc - Developer's documentation including devhelp docs
• dbus-cxx-tools - Development tools, et. al. such as dbus-cxx-xml2cpp
• dbus-cxx-glibmm0 - Libraries need to run applications that integrate dbus-cxx into glibmm
• dbus-cxx-glibmm-dev - Headers and libraries for developing applications that will integrate dbus-cxx into glibmm

Source Code

Releases - (.bz2, .gz, .zip) can be found here

Subversion Repository

• You can browse the subversion repository at this url:
  • http://dbus-cxx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dbus-cxx/trunk/dbus-cxx
• You can also check out a copy of the repository with this command:

  • svn co https://dbus-cxx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dbus-cxx/trunk/dbus-cxx 

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Dependencies... and where to get them

dbus: http://dbus.freedesktop.org

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Documentation, Tutorials, Guides, Quick Start, et. al.

dbus-cxx-xml2cpp Reference

Documentation on using dbus-cxx-xml2cpp to convert DBus XML introspection documents into C++ proxies and adapters.

API Reference

The API documentation (including the pages you are reading now) have been generated with Doxygen.

devhelp

The built documentation also includes a devhelp index. The index is installed automatically in the dbus-cxx-doc RPM and can be browsed simply by starting devhelp.

The most current documentation for dbus-cxx is available online here:

• dbus-cxx - http://dbus-cxx.sourceforge.net

Key sections within the API reference

• Namespaces
  • DBus
• Detailed class documentation in the Class Hierarchy
• Class List
• Examples

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Mailing Lists

• Users List (for those using dbus-cxx in their applications)
  • Archives
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe
• Development List (for discussion related to the development of dbus-cxx itself)
  • Archives
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe

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Sourceforge Forums

Although mailing lists are preferred, the sourceforge forums are available for discussion as well.

• Help forum (for those using dbus-cxx in their applications)
• Developers forum (for discussion related to the development of dbus-cxx itself)

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Bugs

View reported bugs in the bug tracker

Submit a bug report here

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Patches

Patches are always welcome!!!

View submitted patches

Submit patches here

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Feature Requests

Submit feature requests here

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License

dbus-cxx is released under the