Re: Wrong type error in dbus method

[Michael Albinus]

Patrick Michael Niedzielski <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,

Hi,

> I am writing an elisp file to integrate GNU Emacs with Zeitgeist over
> dbus. Because of the lack of good documentation on dbus in emacs and my
> lack of experience with advanced elisp, I am coming up with the
> following error in my method zeitgeist-send:

Which information do you miss in the dbus info manual?

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> This fragment uses ‘quote’, which results in the expression
> ‘(zeitgeist-event-timestamp)’ never being evaluated.  To construct a
> proper plist for ‘zeitgeist-call’ in this case, use ‘list’, for example:
>
>       (zeitgeist-call "InsertEvents"
>         (list :string ""
>               :string (zeitgeist-event-timestamp)
>               ...))

and you don't need the :string keyword, because it is the default type
when a string is passed as parameter.

Best regards, Michael.