RE: Gnome, Gtkmm and sockets

["Foster, Gareth" <gareth foster siemens com>]

Doesn't boost cover this? Sorry if somebody already suggested that.

Gaz
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Vine [mailto:chris cvine freeserve co uk] 
> Sent: 17 May 2005 23:04
> To: Fabio Rafael da Rosa
> Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Gnome, Gtkmm and sockets
> 
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 21:18, Fabio Rafael da Rosa wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > I posted a new message before reading your reply.
> > Tks for help.
> > Don't know if you develop gnome applications, but if yes,
> > what's mostly used in gnome-apps?
> > I ask this because my main purpouse in this application is to
> > learn the main libs being used in gnome to do some gnome hack
> > by myself.
> > I asked about porting gnet to glibmm (I think there's no
> > binding for C++ in gnet), but don't know if it is heavly used in
> > gnome applications...
> 
> gnet is not a gnome dependency (if you mean the mainline 
> gnome libraries and 
> applications) so I guess that none of them use gnet.
> 
> Pan uses gnet, but I am not aware of what other applications 
> also using the 
> GTK+ or gnome libraries use it.
> 
> If your purpose is to learn socket programming then I should 
> have thought 
> learning the native API would be the best way of doing that.  
> There are a 
> number of tutorials available on the web.  Once you have done 
> that, if you 
> are then looking for something more C++ orientated you may 
> want to consider 
> wvstreams ( http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?page=WvStreams ) or GNU 
> Common C++ 
> ( http://www.gnu.org/software/commoncpp/ ).  However, due to 
> its ubiquity I 
> suspect that most projects using sockets and programmed in C 
> or C++ just use 
> the native API.  Frankly, there is not too much involved in 
> programming 
> sockets as such.  It's what you do with data you extract from 
> them (or 
> generating the data you send to them) which is the tricky bit!
> 
> Chris
> 
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