On Saturday 15 August 2009, alan moore wrote: > Hello; I am working on my first plasmoid (in Python), so apologies in > advance if I'm a blockhead. > > I'm trying to remake the old kicker dictionary applet. I have code that > works by calling the "dict" CLI command, but naturally I want to switch > that to working with a data engine. I'm a bit hazy on how to > communicate with the dict dataEngine and get what I want from it; > specifically: > > - How do I tell it what server/dictionary to use? I saw there is a > setServer() function in the code, but it's private.
i don't believe there is a way to do this currently. it could be done in a few ways: * the source name could be the server, though that's not backwards compatible * there could be a serviceForSource that returns a service that lets one define what the server(s) to use for that word should be. the latter is probably the way to go. it requires a bit of work to the dict dataengine in kdebase, but wouldn't be too difficult. other engines implement serviceForSource as well, so examples abound :) > I also tried using connectSource(), then assigning mydef in dataUpdated. > I noticed in that case that I first got an empty dictionary, then a > few moments later the actual data I was looking for. that's correct; the process is asynchronous so it will update later. there is no way around that unless we make the entire internet synchronous ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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