Re: [Evolution-hackers] libecal functions

["Teresa Thomas" <tere ertw gmail com>]

Okay that makes sense. When I enter  gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/calendar/sources on the terminal, it lists all the ESources.

Now, does each ESource have some sort of an identity that I can send as the ESource* parameter to the e_cal_new() function?

Or is their some way I can access the ESources using any functions [I see that there is a get_source() function in EBookBackend]. If so, can you elaborate on the value of parameters that I have to send to such a function. 

Or do I have to construct the ESource on my own (parse the data obtained from gconftool and assign corresponding data members) ?

Thanks

On 7/20/06, chenthill palanisamy <pchenthill novell com> wrote:

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:25 -0400, Teresa Thomas wrote:
> Hi
> I have one last (hopefully) question about libecal. I want to add a
> VEVENT to an existing Evolution calendar.
>
> Hence, I created an iCalComponenent to be added and hope to use the
> e_cal_create_object(ECal* eCal,iCalComponent iCalcomp, char** uid,
> char** error) function.
>
> Now, I understand that eCal is a calendar client. If I want to add my
> event to an Evolution calendar, what exactly should eCal contain? Is
> it some sort of an identity of a cal? If so, how can I obtain it.
ECal client can be obtained by using the function e_cal_new, by passing
an ESource. ESource holds the settings required for a calendar client
which is stored in gconf. The client is associated with the backend
through the protocol specified in the uri stored in ESource.
Eg: uri starting with file:/// would refer to file backend, contacts://
would be pointing to contacts backend.

- Chenthill.

>
> Thanks!
> On 7/19/06, Teresa Thomas <tere ertw gmail com> wrote:
>         Thanks Mr Palanisamy!
>
>         My Bad, I actually meant to ask about the function
>         e_cal_component_new() in ECalComponent.h/c.
>         Anyway, from what I understand it returns an  ECalComponent,
>         which is an (easier to manipulate) wrapper around an
>         iCalComponent.
>
>
>
>         On 7/19/06, chenthill palanisamy <pchenthill novell com>
>         wrote:
>                 On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:44 -0400, Teresa Thomas
>                 wrote:
>                 > Need some assistance in my quest to comprehend EDS.
>                 >
>                 > What exactly is the difference between
>                 e_cal_create_object() [in
>                 > ECalComponent] and e_cal_create_object() [in
>                 ECal ] ?
>                 e_cal_create_object is used to create a appointment,
>                 task or a memo
>                 object (ECalComponent) in the corresponding backend
>                 (file, http,
>                 groupwise etc).  There is no function named
>                 e_cal_create_object in
>                 ECalComponent. There is a function
>                 e_cal_component_get_created which
>                 gives the creation date of a ECalComponent.
>
>                 Please have a look at
>                 http://www.go-evolution.org/EDS_Architecture .
>
>
>                 - Chenthill.
>                 >
>
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