Re: Getting a moniker from a string

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Dietmar Maurer wrote:

> ERDI Gergo wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is somewhat related to the current issues concerning using the Bonobo
> > interface to GConf from non-GNOME applications. To do that, you obviously
> > have to be able to get a moniker from a freeform string like
> > "config:/app/FooBar/display_frobozz". How do you do that? Do you have to
> > parse it by yourself and then construct OAF queries from the moniker
> > prefix of each part? Is there a way to get a handle to the BindigContext
> > or whatever it's called?
> 
> Another similar question: How do I access the gconfd from applications not
> using ORBit? How do you do that? Do you have to construct the CORBA connection
> by yourself? ....
> 

Not that it is relevant to gnome-components, but you just call the gconf
init function. You need to do that to access any gconf client side
functions anyways.

>
> - Dietmar
> 

	Sander

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