Re: document reload via dbus

[Russell Kliese <russell kliese wattle id au>]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> В Втр, 05/08/2008 в 13:12 +1000, Russell Kliese пишет:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to make evince automatically reload when I make updates to a 
> > PDF document.
> >
> > There has been some previous discussion on this 
> > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304249) and I thought the 
> > best way of achieving what I want is to send a D-bus message to evince 
> > to tell it to reload the document after the document has been updated.
> >
> > I was looking at using a command along the lines of the following:
> >
> > dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.evince.ApplicationService 
> > /org/gnome/evince/Evince org.gnome.evince.Application.ReloadDocument
> >
> > The problem is, it doesn't appear that there is a D-bus function to 
> > reload the document (the only functions I can find are listed in the 
> > following file: 
> > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evince/trunk/shell/ev-application-service.xml).
> >
> > Is there a dbus interface to trigger a document to be reloaded?  If not, 
> > are there any other suggestions on how to get evince to reload a 
> > document programmatically?
> >     
>
> You can just call OpenURI once again, this will reload document. I'm not
> sure how to do it with dbus-send. It seems it doesn't support dictionary
> nested into array. 
>
> You can check main.c:load_files_remote as example of dbus invocation.
> Though I think that "system (evince uri);" will be easier.
>   

Thanks for the suggestion.  I ended up crafting a small shell script to 
do the reloading that might be of interest to others (and is included 
below).  I guess this will do until version 2.23.4 mentioned by Carlos 
that automatically reloads documents is included in my favourite 
GNU/Linux distribution.

Cheers,

Russell

#!/bin/dash

# If no file was provided, exit
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
       echo "Usage: $0 <pdf file>"
       exit 1
fi

while [ true ]
do
       inotifywait -e close_write $1
       # exit if inotifywait returned an error
       if [ $? -ne 0 ]
       then
               echo "Exiting: inotifywait returned an error."
               exit 1
       fi
       evince $1 &
done