On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:03 +0000, Michael Ott wrote: > Hello! > > > In my GTK application, is it possible for it to listen > > on a socket (as a server)? > Can you tell my why not? > > I never try to run a socket as a servr but i do it as an client. > There are also exist socket libraries for gtk (I do not use that). > > I am sure, that it is possible the gnet library is a socket wrapper library integrated into the glib event loop, providing easy abstractions for creating and accepting connections and using the glib signaling system to process the data. See http://www.gnetlibrary.org/ Without gnet you can always do normal socket stuff, either as a thread that communicates with your gtk gui through IPC, or by using the io channel stuff in glib to put callbacks on the read operations. Michael > > CU > > Michael > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list