Re: programming practices with regard to gtk and networking

[Matt Hull <mhull1 uic edu>]

how did you do it in java ?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Ken Nagorski wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I just started working with GTK. I have a some background with C which
> means I can do OK but when it comes to working with the two together it
> gets harder...
>
> My question is really this. I have a very simple IM program that I wrote
> in java (had to take a class on it) and I started porting the application
> to C and GTK but here is where I run into a problem. I have a button that
> says connect. and when clicked it creates the connection all that works
> fine, however unlike calling a normal function I can't really pass data
> back from the function the button called. Can I... What I need to do is
> somehow create the connection when the button is clicked and then pass the
> sockfd to the calling part of the programming (main) so I can then use
> that in the calls to send().
>
> What I really need is someone to point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks alot
> Ken
>
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