Re: (no subject) [network stuff and the gtk main loop]

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Monday 09 February 2004 21:50, christophe Meyer wrote:

> How can i do to make my gtk application listen on a network socket
> without freezing my interface ? but react when a message arrives on
> the socket ?

* use GLib's GIOChannels, in particular g_io_add_watch [1] (this is the hard 
way)

* use the GNet library (http://www.gnetlibrary.org), e.g. the GServer 
interface [2] (this is the nice'n'easy way).

* alternatively, check out the libgnetwork library

Cheers
-Tim

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-IO-Channels.html
[2] http://www.gnetlibrary.org/docs/gnet-server.html