I hate when I do that... Forwarding the message since, once again, I answered it to the poster, instead to the list. Sorry, folks :(

Regards, Alexandre Moreira.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 2006/9/11, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de: [...snip...]

Yestderday I got my laptop with a running Windows back and today I got the socket running under Windows(wasn't much work). It seems to work, even under Windows XP with enabled firewall. But I didn't test it very well.

And Alexandre, if you succeed in learning about DDE, I'd give it a try although the socket code seems to work.

I have a basic DDE + Gtk+ code running, although it is in a machine without Network access, and I'll only have acess to it in about a week... living in many different places is weird, you know (lol)

But, anyways, I don't think you would like the solution so far, as it involves a big chunk of boilerplate code (It needs an invisible Win32 Window, and the Gtk+ main() running inside a glib_thread). I'll post it here whenever I have the chance to fetch the code and put it online.

If I recall correctly the boilerplate code needed to get GTk+ running inside a Win32 Application is something between 50 ~ 100 lines of code. The real problem is that I don't know how Geany would behave with this extra thread in the application ... and perhaps this would somehow "violate" Geany's "Keep it Simple" filosophy

For now I think the socket code, although not very "orthodox", would do the job.

Regards, Enrico

Regards, Alexandre Moreira.