Re: Sockets

[Chris Nystrom <ccn olenska hn org>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Paul Davis wrote:

> GTK is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It has
> nothing to do with sockets or other IPC mechanisms, though it has some
> builtin support to make integrating I/O handling a little simpler. I
> think you need to look at another library that is focussed on this
> area, not GTK.

He might run into problems when trying to integrate the socket IO with
the gtk_main function that never returns. He needs to become familiar
with monitoring the IO (14.2 in the tutorial, I think), or how to avoid
using the gtk-main function.

Chris