Mathias Sundman wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jan Kiszka wrote:
PS: Has anyone ever thought about some small GUI (taskbar icon with
some dialogs) for Windows, KDE, etc. to make the handling of multiple
configurations and the status display easier in a roadwarrior
scenario? Just a thought, I'm not saying I have the time for doing it
- unfortunately.
[If you reply, please add a CC, I'm not on the list]
I just started working on such an application last night. I'm kinda new
to C programming in Windows so I ran into a little annoying problem
right away though!
I don't want to bother this list with basic C programming issues though,
but if someone is used to classic C programming and message handeling in
windows, please contact me offlist if you got a spare minute. A pointer
to a good mailing-list for discussion about classic C programming in
windows would be appreciated too.
While considering a similar interface for some other project, I once
took a closer look at wxWindows (http://www.wxwindows.org). Before you
start hacking your own message handling routines in C or switching over
to the Windows-only MFC library, this project may be worth some thoughts
because
A) it capsulates most of the annoying GUI work, and
B) it opens to possiblity to port your work later to Linux as well!
I think not only Windows users would appreciate a simple management
interface for OpenVPN clients very much...
The only problem so far: You have to consider writing your program
object-oriented, i.e. in C++. Did you ever worked with some OO languages
(Java e.g.)?
I would furthermore suggest to discuss the required interface between
the GUI and the OpenVPN daemon on this list. Starting and stopping would
be possibly by just running the main binary, but I think a more
sophisticated status and diagnosis interface requires some other
mechanism (e.g. a local socket). Such an interface could furthermore
prevent that the actual user who switches some configuration or just
checks the status must own superuser privileges to start/stop a OpenVPN
service and - even worse - read the secret key files.
Comments are welcome!
Jan
