Re: Getting the iid of a component for activation?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Archit Baweja wrote:

> Well I made a very vanilla-container for embedding the
> bonobo-calculator-control, just to started on some Bonobo Programming. Well
> I have a question (obviously). Well to activate (is this the right term in
> the present context) the component, I need the iid. Well, how do I get it
> without hardcoding it in my source file? Is there some CORBA or OAF or Bonobo
> function which does this? Like give it the control's name and it'll give me the
> full iid.

You're should use the oaf_activate() function (or whatever the Bonobo
equivalent is). Activating by IID is for more unusual situations.

-- Elliot
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