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author | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2005-01-23 03:53:34 +0000 |
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committer | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2005-01-23 03:53:34 +0000 |
commit | 487f13451d9f8c50858e9348b1e5f8612433132e (patch) | |
tree | a84ac6274926786afc82fef9ad42c664f568a87f | |
parent | b43fc80af380edbf65be5f74d91d80bd6c6a3dd0 (diff) |
couple of minor tweaks
-rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-faq.xml | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-tutorial.xml | 8 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-faq.xml b/doc/dbus-faq.xml index 573c3089..b197297e 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-faq.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-faq.xml @@ -97,11 +97,10 @@ </question> <answer> <para> - If you imagine a C++ program that implements a network - service, then the bus name is the domain name - of the computer running this C++ program, the object path - is a C++ object instance pointer, and an interface is a C++ - class (a pure virtual or abstract class, to be exact). + If you imagine a C++ program that implements a network service, then + the bus name is the hostname of the computer running this C++ program, + the object path is a C++ object instance pointer, and an interface is + a C++ class (a pure virtual or abstract class, to be exact). </para> <para> In Java terms, the object path is an object reference, @@ -120,11 +119,12 @@ </para> <para> However, a text editor application could as easily own multiple bus - names (for example, <literal>org.kde.KWrite</literal>), have multiple - objects (maybe <literal>/org/kde/documents/4352</literal>), - and each object could implement multiple interfaces, - such as <literal>org.freedesktop.Introspectable</literal>, - <literal>org.freedesktop.BasicTextField</literal>, + names (for example, <literal>org.kde.KWrite</literal> in addition to + generic <literal>TextEditor</literal>), have multiple objects (maybe + <literal>/org/kde/documents/4352</literal> where the number changes + according to the document), and each object could implement multiple + interfaces, such as <literal>org.freedesktop.Introspectable</literal>, + <literal>org.freedesktop.BasicTextField</literal>, <literal>org.kde.RichTextDocument</literal>. </para> </answer> diff --git a/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml b/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml index 6f5afc07..22906ac9 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ communication" or "networking" in their stated purpose: <ulink url="http://www.omg.org">CORBA</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.opengroup.org/dce/">DCE</ulink>, <ulink - url="http://www.microsoft.com/com/">COM/DCOM</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://www.microsoft.com/com/">DCOM</ulink>, <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html">DCOP</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.xmlrpc.com">XML-RPC</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/">SOAP</ulink>, <ulink @@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ using to write a D-BUS application. The exact code you write will be different for GLib vs. Qt vs. Python applications, however. </para> + + <para> + Here is a diagram (<ulink url="diagram.png">png</ulink> <ulink + url="diagram.svg">svg</ulink>) that may help you visualize the concepts + that follow. + </para> <sect2 id="objects"> <title>Objects and Object Paths</title> |