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 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!!
Use a pipe, fifo or socket and connect the file descriptor for it into the main program loop with Glib::signal_io().connect(). See the documentation at http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1SignalIO.html#a0 Chris _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
