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Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

can i install QBW in pc
how to do this

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

Hi, No!No!No!Yes!

I love your app, I have been busy replacing my regular widgets with beecons for the past week or so,
and I am currently working on a "like button" for my mp3 player",
I dump a bunch of new songs onto a folder, and if I hear a song i like, I just press the LIKEbutton,
and it saves the song file to another folder.

it seems to be working well, but I think I found a bug in queenbeecon,
I am using QBW V1.3.3, and my N900 firmware is up to date.

the LIKEbutton uses the DBUS to get the currently playing song from the media player (I am using Mediabox player),
but if the song titles have single quotes in them (" ' "), $QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT returns NOTHING,
in fact, the entire script seems to crash, returning an exit code 2.

I set up a demo beecon that was taken from your own Wiki page,
with a slight modification to include a " ' " in a DBUS output string.

Code:

run-standalone.sh dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/example/app/Signal com.example.app.Signal.Test string:'Oh' string:'No!!!' string:'More QBWs!!!' string:"single quotes don't work here" boolean:true uint32:10000

if you change
"single quotes don't work here"
to
"single quotes dont work here"
the script works fine.

here is the beecon that demonstrates the bug (original script code from Wiki):

Code:

[queen-beecon-header]

version=1.000000

checksum=2855790

[queen-beecon-exported-instance]

widgetType=0

widgetVisible=1

operationalStatus=0

hideCanvas=false

hideClickCanvas=true

snippetBgRGB=0

snippetExtBgRGB=#83477ee7845f

beecon_lt0_ImgZoom=0

beecon_lt0_BgRGB=2

beecon_lt0_ExtBgRGB=#808080808080

beecon_lt0_ImgFilename=

beecon_eq0_ImgZoom=0

beecon_eq0_BgRGB=3

beecon_eq0_ExtBgRGB=#0000ffff0000

beecon_eq0_ImgFilename=

beecon_eq1_ImgZoom=0

beecon_eq1_BgRGB=4

beecon_eq1_ExtBgRGB=#ffff00000000

beecon_eq1_ImgFilename=

beecon_ge2_ImgZoom=0

beecon_ge2_BgRGB=5

beecon_ge2_ExtBgRGB=#ffffffff0000

beecon_ge2_ImgFilename=

beecon_idxge2_ImgZoom=0

beecon_idxge2_BgRGB=11

beecon_idxge2_ExtBgRGB=#ffff8c080000

beecon_idxge2_ImgFilename=

widWidth=500.67741935483866

widHeight=320.57142857142856

instanceTitle=single quote fail

instanceCmd=echo "$QBW_ID $QBW_EXEC_REASON"; echo '$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT'; exit 2

rememberMe=

cmdImgFilename=

cmdImgAngle=0

cmdImgZoom=0

cmdFgRGB=1

cmdExtFgRGB=#ffffffffffff

cmdTextAngle=0

cmdVisibilityPosition=0

cmdImgVisibilityPosition=5

cmdJustify=0

cmdExtFont=Nokia Sans bold italic 12

cmdFontName=3

cmdFontSize=12

resImgFilename=queen-beecon-resimg.png

resImgAngle=0

resImgZoom=0

resFgRGB=1

resExtFgRGB=#000000000000

resTextAngle=0

resVisibilityPosition=1

resImgVisibilityPosition=5

resJustify=0

resExtFont=Nokia Sans Cn 17

resFontName=16

resFontSize=10

resWrapLongLines=true

progressAnimationFrames=4

progressAnimationTimer=4

progressAnimationPos=4

progressAnimationAtClickXY=false

progressAnimationBasename=queen-beecon-progress

updOnStartup=false

updOnClick=true

multiClick=false

updOnDesktop=false

updOnSight=false

updOnOrientation=false

delayIndex=0

customIntervalSecs=0

updNeworkPolicy=0

GPSsettings=0

updOnDBUS=1

updOnDBUSBus=0

updOnDBUSMatchRule=type='signal',interface='com.example.app.Signal'

Thanks for reading :)

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by ioiomi (Post 952624)

can i install QBW in pc
how to do this

Sorry ... N900 only. No immediate plans to cross-porting.

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midnite_Rider (Post 952750)

Code:

run-standalone.sh dbus-send --system --type=signal /com/example/app/Signal com.example.app.Signal.Test string:'Oh' string:'No!!!' string:'More QBWs!!!' string:"single quotes don't work here" boolean:true uint32:10000

if you change
"single quotes don't work here"
to
"single quotes dont work here"
the script works fine.

here is the beecon that demonstrates the bug (original script code from Wiki):

Code:

[queen-beecon-header]

version=1.000000

checksum=2855790

[queen-beecon-exported-instance]

widgetType=0

widgetVisible=1

operationalStatus=0

hideCanvas=false

hideClickCanvas=true

snippetBgRGB=0

snippetExtBgRGB=#83477ee7845f

beecon_lt0_ImgZoom=0

beecon_lt0_BgRGB=2

beecon_lt0_ExtBgRGB=#808080808080

beecon_lt0_ImgFilename=

beecon_eq0_ImgZoom=0

beecon_eq0_BgRGB=3

beecon_eq0_ExtBgRGB=#0000ffff0000

beecon_eq0_ImgFilename=

beecon_eq1_ImgZoom=0

beecon_eq1_BgRGB=4

beecon_eq1_ExtBgRGB=#ffff00000000

beecon_eq1_ImgFilename=

beecon_ge2_ImgZoom=0

beecon_ge2_BgRGB=5

beecon_ge2_ExtBgRGB=#ffffffff0000

beecon_ge2_ImgFilename=

beecon_idxge2_ImgZoom=0

beecon_idxge2_BgRGB=11

beecon_idxge2_ExtBgRGB=#ffff8c080000

beecon_idxge2_ImgFilename=

widWidth=500.67741935483866

widHeight=320.57142857142856

instanceTitle=single quote fail

instanceCmd=echo "$QBW_ID $QBW_EXEC_REASON"; echo '$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT'; exit 2

rememberMe=

cmdImgFilename=

cmdImgAngle=0

cmdImgZoom=0

cmdFgRGB=1

cmdExtFgRGB=#ffffffffffff

cmdTextAngle=0

cmdVisibilityPosition=0

cmdImgVisibilityPosition=5

cmdJustify=0

cmdExtFont=Nokia Sans bold italic 12

cmdFontName=3

cmdFontSize=12

resImgFilename=queen-beecon-resimg.png

resImgAngle=0

resImgZoom=0

resFgRGB=1

resExtFgRGB=#000000000000

resTextAngle=0

resVisibilityPosition=1

resImgVisibilityPosition=5

resJustify=0

resExtFont=Nokia Sans Cn 17

resFontName=16

resFontSize=10

resWrapLongLines=true

progressAnimationFrames=4

progressAnimationTimer=4

progressAnimationPos=4

progressAnimationAtClickXY=false

progressAnimationBasename=queen-beecon-progress

updOnStartup=false

updOnClick=true

multiClick=false

updOnDesktop=false

updOnSight=false

updOnOrientation=false

delayIndex=0

customIntervalSecs=0

updNeworkPolicy=0

GPSsettings=0

updOnDBUS=1

updOnDBUSBus=0

updOnDBUSMatchRule=type='signal',interface='com.example.app.Signal'

Thanks for reading :)

Thanks for thorough reporting :)
Actually, I think the problem here is the:

Code:

echo '$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT'

That gets replaced as something like:

Code:

echo '.....single quotes don't work here...'

Thus causing the uneven single quote character balancing and shell statement to fail (Unterminated quoted string)

How about trying with:

Code:

echo "$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT"

This way maybe you'll get rid of your current problem but you could have the side effect of noticing weird behaviour with songs with shell special characters in their title.
Like for example: '...$$$ for nothing...'

One more thing to try (shell Here Documents):

Code:

echo <<LikeThisSong

$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT

LikeThisSong

Let me now :D

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

i usual i use the cat command so i can see my notes but i need a script that i will access it from my desktop, and the location of my note is /home/user/MyDocs/note.html
how can i do that ?
i have this script but i can't open my text location:

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.HildonDesktop.AppMgr /com/nokia/HildonDesktop/AppMgr com.nokia.HildonDesktop.AppMgr.LaunchApplication string:"osso_notes"

please can anyone correct it, thank you

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by No!No!No!Yes! (Post 952997)

Thanks for thorough reporting :)
Actually, I think the problem here is the:

Code:

echo '$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT'

How about trying with:

Code:

echo "$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT"

Tried that, one of the first things I tried, I even tried putting the quotes into strings,

Code:

QT="'"; echo $QT$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT$QT

but even if I used the wrong quoting, I would still get something returned from the variable,
like this: "single quotes don"
but this is a far more serious problem, since the entire script crashes, and I get no output at all.

I will add some code to the demo beecon before $QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT is read to confirm that the beecon code crashes, but I'm pretty sure it does crash .

Quote:

One more thing to try (shell Here Documents):

Code:

echo <<LikeThisSong

$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT

LikeThisSong

It looks like that I would be simply inserting the data into a string,
the same as doing:

Code:

QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT="single quotes don't work here"

and that isn't going to get me anywhere, since the data is coming from MY code, and I can escape it any way I want.

the problem is that $QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT
is being set internally by YOUR code, so there isn't anything I can do to correct it after it was set by QBW.

Please try out the beecon & DBUS command I posted above, and see for yourself .

thanks :)

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

well, I was wrong,
it does seem to work, but it's not very useful, unfortunately.

it only displays the entire dbus output, you can't pass it to another variable for further processing, and a here-doc that was posted on the page you linked to is SUPPOSED to pass the output to a variable doesn't seem to work :(

Code:

variable=$(cat <<SETVAR

This variable

runs over multiple lines.

SETVAR)



echo "$variable"

So, I guess that you aren't going to fix the bug in your app ?
or even look to see if it can be fixed ?

I would think it can be fixed, since the dbus output shows up in the QBW logs & is formatted correctly .

Thanks for pointing me to the here-docs though, at least I learned something new for all my effort .

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midnite_Rider (Post 953658)

Code:

variable=$(cat <<SETVAR

This variable

runs over multiple lines.

SETVAR)



echo "$variable"

It's not a bug in the app.
It's just a matter of scripting skills and shell knowledge.
http://i.imgur.com/Yozhy.jpg

Re: [Announce] Queen BeeCon Widget: Super powerful and customizable Widget Generation Engine - Official Thread

well, if a single character (" ' ") causing an entire script to crash isn't a bug, than I don't know what is, (and it does crash, I checked).

I'm not trying to do anything unusual in the beecon, just trying to extract data from $QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT, and it works just fine, until it encounters a single quote in the dbus message, how is that not a bug ?

why would I need to add several extra lines of code just to handle quote chars when a:
"my_variable=$QBW_DBUS_VERBOSE_OUTPUT"
should suffice for ALL printable chars.?

and that screenshot you posted shows that the script is clearly NOT running on your widget.