Hey there. James and I had a prior discussion about the systray app offline, but I thought I'd just poke my head in here. I'm not a strong Windows application programmer, but I've been doing a lot of C# these days.
With that in mind, I was gonna whip together a quickie little systray app in C# which could control the openvpn server. I know that C# adds the rather large .NET framework runtime installation, so my app could be considered a prototype if you would like! Where do I start? Are the namedpipe hooks into the OpenVPN service built? I'm not too familiar with named pipes on Windows (done a bit on *nix), but I'm sure it can't be too hard. I guess what I'd need to know are the command to send to the named pipe, and also what I can get from the named pipe in regards to status and such. Any suggestions? -- -bk Quoting James Yonan <j...@yonan.net>: > > James, do you put any preferance in what language/environment a gui for > > OpenVPN is developed in, if you would distribute it together with the main > > application in the future? > > These are my current thoughts on this: > > * Preferably, the language development tools and environment are open source, > > so there's no impediment to anyone building from source. > > * The total size of included libraries should be reasonable, so it doesn't > excessively push up the size of the Windows self-installing exe. > > Having said that, I'm certainly going to be pragmatic here -- if someone puts > > together a great GUI agent that requires Visual C++ to build, I'm not going > to belabor the point. > > On the other hand if it's written in Visual Basic and increases the Windows > package size by 10 MB then I'm going to have to think twice about actually > bundling it. But if it's up to standard, I'd still link to it from the > website in a heartbeat. > > James > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-devel mailing list > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel > >
