README
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4About
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7DBus-Tcl is a Tcl library for interacting with the DBus, a popular system
8for applications to talk to eachother. DBus can also be used to coordinate
9the lifecycle of a process. For more information about DBus, see
10http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
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13Features
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16 + Connect to the well-known and other local and remote buses.
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18 + Emit and receive triggers
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20 + Execute method calls in other applications and get the results back.
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22 + Handle method calls from other applications in plain Tcl.
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24 + Monitor traffic on selected buses.
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26 + Ensure that only one instance of an application runs at the same time.
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29Compiling
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32The dbus-tcl package uses a TEA3-based build system. Building the package
33generally consists of running "./configure; make; make install" in the
34top-level directory. More details are available in the INSTALL file.
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36*** NOTE ***
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38Building the documentation requires the availability of the dtplite command,
39which is part of the doctools package in tcllib.
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42Availability
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44The Tcl DBus extension is hosted at SourceForge:
45 http://dbus-tcl.sourceforge.net/
46 http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbus-tcl
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48The latest sources are available under the 'dbus-tcl' module in CVS.
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