Re: exchanging data between different programs

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Vine
On Friday 21 October 2005 09:52, 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

Re: exchanging data between different programs

2005-10-21 Thread Bob Caryl
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