Posted on 24-03-2009 | By: Jérémie Laval
Category : C#, DBus Explorer, English, Linux, Programming
Tags: dbus, DBus Explorer, managed dbus
Time for another release of DBus-Explorer, your favorite D-Bus API viewer.
Summary
D-Bus Explorer is a GTK+ application written in C# which use NDesk’s managed D-Bus library to display the API of D-Bus services. In summary, it’s a clone of dbus-viewer with a GTK+ interface.
New in this release
- UI cleanup. Interface generation is now only available when right clicking interface item and allow to select items individually :
- Method invoking for simple methods (i.e. only when base type are involved in the method prototype) :
- Property support is back :
- Yet another parser rewrite. This time it’s definitely cool.
Download
Tarball : http://www.ndesk.org/archive/dbus-explorer/dbus-explorer-0.5.tar.gz
Future
For my usage, D-Bus Explorer is starting to get rather feature complete. Therefore, if you have any idea of a cool feature that could be implemented don’t hesitate to drop your thought in the comments.
Posted on 28-12-2008 | By: Jérémie Laval
Category : C#, DBus Explorer, English, Mono, Programming
Tags: C#, dbus, DBus Explorer, managed dbus
Finally after months of postponing the 0.4 release of D-Bus Explorer I managed to get it out as a Christmas/New Year present 
. For the impatient you will find download link at the usual place.
For those who doesn’t know what D-Bus Explorer is, it’s a little tool I wrote up a long time ago which allows to browse D-Bus bus services and services’ API. It’s similar in concept to dbus-viewer or DFeet with extra feature which make it sweet when you work with C# and Managed D-Bus.
For instance when you want to know the signature of a method/event/property it’s both shown with D-Bus own syntax and C# syntax. In this release this mechanism is extensible to other language though only C# is provided at the moment.
Coming to this release is also a C# generator which will create the necessary interface definition for use with Managed D-Bus. Simply right-click on the path / interface you want to use in your program and save it somewhere. Again this is extensible to other language.
In other news, the interface is now fully tabbed to let you browse different API at the same time.
Happy D-Bus hacking !
Posted on 25-06-2008 | By: Jérémie Laval
Category : C#, DBus Explorer, English, Linux, Programming
Tags: dbus, DBus Explorer, debugger
Long time I hadn’t hacked on DBus-Explorer but as a exam stress killer I brought together all the piece I had already randomly coded. This resulted in a number of appreciable improvements that were long overdue like :
Tabbed browsing :
Good if you get lost like me with multiple DBus-Explorer windows (Ctrl+T to open and tab button to close, who say Firefox ?).
Multiple (possible) languages :
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Just write a definition file like the one in the screenshot and drop it in ~/.dbus-explorer/langs, « possible » because I was too lazy to write another language than C# 
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Stubs autogeneration :
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For use with library like Managed D-Bus, yay \o/ .
There has also been work on the UI and other bugfixes but nothing major. All in one I think DBus-Explorer kept its KISS nature together with the few extra features it was missing. Now I just need to add dialogs for managing language definitions and stub generators in a friendly way.
Hot stuff to be grabbed on git at the usual place.
Posted on 14-02-2008 | By: Jérémie Laval
Category : C#, English, Mono
Tags: banshee, dbus, remote
After a little poking at the docs, DBus-Explorer, previous code bits and having some times ahead, I put up together a small Remote Controller for Banshee accessible within a web browser and using D-Bus for the interprocess wire.
With BansheeRemote you can start your favorite music on your main PC (with all the sounds equipments goodies) and control the thing remotely from your bed, or wherever else, using another computer with a web browser (have I mentioned it’s particularly sweet with an Eee pc ? ).
You can download BansheeRemote and all the necessary stuff from here.
To use it, just fire up mono BansheeRemote.exe and point your browser to http://your-ip:8081/. You can tweak the HTML presentation to your need or supply another file using the BANSHEE_REMOTE_FILE environment variable.
A small screenshot :
Have fun !
