Re: Gnome TCP front-end to app.

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

Either use GIOChannels (g_io_channel_unix_new() and g_io_add_watch() in
GLib) or use the equivalent functions in GNet (www.gnetlibrary.org).

David


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Freivald, Joseph A, PROSH wrote:

> I'm working on a front-end that communicates with a process on another
> box over TCP.  The other box feeds status messages asynchronously to
> the front-end, and the front-end will send messages to the back-end
> processes when buttons are pressed, etc.
>
> Sending messages based on user input is trivial because it can be
> embedded in the widget callbacks.  It only needs to be executed when
> the user makes a change.
>
> What I need is a way to watch the TCP port and generate an event when
> a message is available.  I have considered making a separate thread
> that reads the message, checks it for validity, queues it and then
> generates an event (so that the entire app doesn't have to be
> re-entrant), but before I take that route, I wanted to ask for
> suggestions.


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