Re: Using glib IOChannels

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Gurupartap Davis wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows if you can realistically use the glib
> iochannels stuff without using GTK... I saw a warning in one of the
> header files that it was made to work with the GIMP, and not to use it
> with Win32 unless you really know what you're doing...  Well, I have a
> project that could make good use of the iochannel stuff, but not GTK
> (it's a server).  It has to be portable to Win32, though...I was
> thinking I could use g_io_add_watch and g_main_iteration(TRUE) in the
> main loop to have it block until it gets some input.
> 
> So it looks like this will work under Linux, but I'm wondering if
> anyone has actually used this successfully

Yes, you can and that's basically how you do it (or you can use GLib's
main loop).  Take a look at the examples in  GNet, a networking library:
	http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dhelder/misc/gnet 
The echoclient/echoserver example is a good example of using GIOChannels
and the GLib main loop.

If you use GNet, it's more likely to work with Win32 (there's a port in
progress).

David


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