On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/9/13 Baptiste Saleil <baptiste.sal...@gmail.com>: >> Hi all. >> >> Just a simple question : >> I'm writing an extension for the shell. >> So, what's the best way to communicate over TCP/IP with this extension ? > > Have a look at Gio: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/ > It includes GSocket, wrapping the low-level BSD sockets, and higher > level wrappers such as GSocketClient and GSocketConnection. > Once you have that, you can get a GSocketInputStream / > GSocketOutputStream, wrap it with a GDataInputStream / > GDataOutputStream for buffering and formatting. > If you're doing binary communications, you probably need to target > 3.6, as many operations did not support GBytes in 3.4.
That's not quite true. We enable binary strings, and gjs had "byteArray" since forever. > Giovanni > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
