[Evolution-hackers] starting evolution-mail-composer from the command line

[Chuck Mason]

Can anyone help out? This is my story so far:

Ever since I was a young boy... I wanted to send emails through
evolution without having to load up the entire evolution client...In
other words if I click on a "mailto" link in mozzila, or and email
address in xchat, I'd like the mail composer to pop up with the selected
email in the "To:" field... 


At first, I suspected that there *might* be a command line option for
evolution-mail....nope...checked evolution ... nope.. eh..

so I thought for a while.. bonobo! I have spent the last 24 hours
researching and reading and etc etc on bonobo and oaf and ORBit and
CORBA and and and.. well, you get the point :P

So I tried playing around with oaf-client, oaf-do-query, or
evolution-mail --oaf-activate-iid=....

This was about the extent of my success:

$ oaf-client -s "repo_ids.has ('IDL:GNOME/Evolution:Composer:1.0')"
Query spec is "repo_ids.has ('IDL:GNOME/Evolution:Composer:1.0')"
Activation ID
"OAFAID:[OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ComposerFactory,chuckjr,tower,session]" 
RESULT_OBJECT
IOR:010000002100000049444c3a474e4f4d452f45766f6c7574696f6e2f436f6d706f7365723a312e300000000001000000caaedfba54000000010100002b0000002f746d702f6f726269742d636875636b6a722f6f72622d3533363331333235353137373232323932353700000000000018000000000000002aff5996fba00146c5000000983e3666bad8b015

.. I even tried passing some of those values to --oaf-activate-iid, eh.
That didn't go so well, and that's about as far as I got with such
tools. 

So I decided to write my own, evo-comp.c is attached.  I figured I'll
just make a container and load up the OAF object... Well, it doesn't
load, and now I'm here asking this list for an
answer/advice/suggestions.. 


What do you all say? How can this be done?


Thanks,
Charles


#include <gnome.h>
#include <liboaf/liboaf.h>
#include <bonobo.h>

#define EVOLUTION_COMPOSER "OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_Composer"


static void
app_destroy_cb (GtkWidget *app, BonoboUIContainer *uic)
{
	bonobo_object_unref (BONOBO_OBJECT (uic));

	gtk_main_quit ();
}

static int
app_delete_cb (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer dummy)
{
	gtk_widget_destroy (GTK_WIDGET (widget));

	return FALSE;
}

static guint
container_create (void)
{
	GtkWidget       *control;
	GtkWidget       *proplist;
	GtkWidget       *box;
	GtkWidget       *button;
	GtkWidget       *clock_button;
	BonoboUIContainer *uic;
	BonoboControlFrame *cf;
	GtkWindow       *window;
	GtkWidget       *app;

	app = bonobo_window_new ("evolutoin-mail-composer",
			      "Evolution Mail-Composer Launcher");

	window = GTK_WINDOW (app);
	
	uic = bonobo_ui_container_new ();

	bonobo_ui_container_set_win (uic, BONOBO_WINDOW (app));

	gtk_window_set_default_size (window, 500, 440);
	gtk_window_set_policy (window, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE);

	gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), "delete_event",
			    GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (app_delete_cb), NULL);

	gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
			    GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (app_destroy_cb), uic);

	box = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0);
	bonobo_window_set_contents (BONOBO_WINDOW (app), box);

	control = bonobo_widget_new_control (EVOLUTION_COMPOSER,
					     NULL);

	if (control) 
		gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (box), control, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
	else
		g_print ("control is NULL.\n");
		

	gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (window));

	return FALSE;
}

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	CORBA_Environment ev;
	CORBA_ORB orb;
	CORBA_exception_init (&ev);


        gnome_init_with_popt_table ("evolutoin-mail-composer", "0.1",
				    argc, argv,
				    oaf_popt_options, 0, NULL); 
	orb = oaf_init (argc, argv);

	if (bonobo_init (orb, NULL, NULL) == FALSE)
		g_error ("Could not initialize Bonobo");

	gtk_idle_add ((GtkFunction) container_create, NULL);

	bonobo_main ();

	return 0;
}