Hi Thiago! On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > On sexta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2013 10.15.39, K. Frank wrote: >> Well, truth be told, I'm not trying to do anything. Or, more seriously, >> I'm trying to learn, so that I get a sense of the Qt-approved way of doing, >> so that I get a sense of what one can do with non-gui Qt apps and >> when I might want to use them. > > Writing a server application, that handles sockets and runs forever (until it > receives a Quit command) is quite supported. All you need is to instantiate > your server class, that opens the necessary server sockets, in your main > function, like you would your main window. Then exec() in the > QCoreApplication. Those are no-UI applications.
Thank you. This all makes good sense. > Using stdin is not, as you put it, "Qt-approved". Those aren't no-UI: they > have a user interface, it's just text mode. Qt has no support for TUI. That's good to know. So I should plan not to use the console, or if I do use the console, I should expect any attempts to integrated it with the Qt (non-gui) event loop to be complicated or look hackish. >> ... >> The kind of thing I'm thinking of, hypothetically, is some kind of server >> that responds to events coming in over a socket (maybe sometimes >> writing to that or another socket), but also responds to commands >> typed into the console. (These might be more along the lines of >> management-control commands.) So the first thing I thought I might >> try is to build a toy app that uses the event loop, but responds initially >> only to command-line input. > > I'd design that so the management console is a separate, GUI application that > connects to the server via socket and is able to acquire the privilege of > sending management commands via authentication. Your server application would > have no direct UI. Yes, I very much agree with this architecture for an industrial-strength solution. > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center I appreciate you advice. K. Frank _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
