[ gpsdrive ] gpsDrive as library ?

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Donnerstag 17 Januar 2008 schrieb Jim Gruen:
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)
>
> wrote:
> > The patch is in SVN HEAD
> >
> > But don't ask me how to use it ....
>
> Is this referring to my "embedding" patch I posted a little over a
> week ago?  If so, I haven't seen it applied in SVN, but I have
> included an updated patch attached to this email.
>
yes, this was referring your patch.
it should be in svn now. sorry for the delay.

I changed the necessary option to '-e', because that fits better 
to 'embedded'.

> Basically, this adds an extra command-line option '-m' that takes an
> additional argument of 0, 1, or 2 (this is the new part).  0 is the
> default, normal behavior.  1 and 2 make GpsDrive embeddable into
> another GTK application.  The only difference here is that if you use
> '-m 2', then you cannot use the Quit command from the menu to quit,
> nor does GpsDrive quit when the window containing the embedded
> GpsDrive disappears (the reason for this?  I had some trouble with
> GpsDrive exiting when I hid my GpsDrive window; apparently a GTK
> "destroy" signal was being sent to the GpsDrive application somehow).
> Of course, you can still kill GpsDrive by sending a SIGTERM or SIGKILL
> to the process itself.
>
the patch with the additional arguments is not yet included. I will have a 
look at it when I have more time.
If we will do this, the option should be renamed to '-E', because we have a 
convention for gpsdrive, that all options that need arguments should be upper 
case.


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