Launch the alarm daemon as soon as the calendar component is started.

2001-10-29  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@ximian.com>

	* gui/main.c (launch_alarm_daemon): Launch the alarm daemon as
	soon as the calendar component is started.  Fixes bug #13867;
	we can't really do much better than this.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=14389

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/calendar/ChangeLog b/calendar/ChangeLog
index 41a3247647..3672346b8f 100644
--- a/calendar/ChangeLog
+++ b/calendar/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2001-10-29  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@ximian.com>
 
+	* gui/main.c (launch_alarm_daemon): Launch the alarm daemon as
+	soon as the calendar component is started.  Fixes bug #13867;
+	we can't really do much better than this.
+
+2001-10-29  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@ximian.com>
+
 	* gui/tasks-control.c (pixmaps): Fix the verb names for the
 	pixmaps in the Edit menu; they were out of synch with the XML
 	UI description.
diff --git a/calendar/gui/main.c b/calendar/gui/main.c
index e49aa3272b..768d6fddcc 100644
--- a/calendar/gui/main.c
+++ b/calendar/gui/main.c
@@ -91,6 +91,35 @@ component_editor_factory_init (void)
 		g_error (_("Could not create the component editor factory"));
 }
 
+/* Does a simple activation and unreffing of the alarm notification service so
+ * that the daemon will be launched if it is not running yet.
+ */
+static void
+launch_alarm_daemon (void)
+{
+	CORBA_Environment ev;
+	GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify an;
+
+	CORBA_exception_init (&ev);
+	an = oaf_activate_from_id ("OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify", 0, NULL, &ev);
+
+	if (ev._major != CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION) {
+		g_message ("add_alarms(): Could not activate the alarm notification service");
+		CORBA_exception_free (&ev);
+		return;
+	}
+	CORBA_exception_free (&ev);
+
+	/* Just get rid of it; what we are interested in is that it gets launched */
+
+	CORBA_exception_init (&ev);
+	bonobo_object_release_unref (an, &ev);
+	if (ev._major != CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION)
+		g_message ("add_alarms(): Could not unref the alarm notification service");
+
+	CORBA_exception_free (&ev);
+}
+
 int
 main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -122,6 +151,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	tasks_control_factory_init ();
 	component_editor_factory_init ();
 
+	launch_alarm_daemon ();
+
 	bonobo_main ();
 
 	alarm_done ();