Re: exchanging data between different programs

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

If you were to use a socket to receive your data from the other program, 
you could connect a callback slot to the GUI application idle loop that 
uses a non-blocking read on that socket.  This would allow your main GUI 
thread to run somewhat normally while still listening for the data from 
the other program.

Bob Caryl

Andreas Schropp wrote:

> hello,
>
> I wanted to write some GUI-application using
> gtkmm-2.0 that acts somewhat similar than a
> server application. So, there shall be the GUI
> permitting the manipulation of different things
> and a different part of code waiting on a string from
> another program (non-GUI) to arrive.
> I am quite a programming starter and I don't have
> any clue how to implement something like that.
> What to use? Signals, pipes, sockets??
>
> Until now, my server always freezes the GUI ...
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!!
>
> Cheers
> Andreas
>
>
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