Thread: advice for gui front end

Thanks Anduril462,
I will take a look at what sockets are and if they can reasonably be used to do what I am wanting to do. If you have any good resource sites I can look-up I would be all ears. If I understand correctly by your response I could very easily write the back-end in C and the front end in whatever (java, html, c++) and use "sockets" to speak back and forth from one app to the next app. I will read up on sockets and see if the sockets are used inside each application (gui and main/control) or if it is more of a layer in between. If they are call in the apps themselves then I am guessing their is an API for C (the backend) and/or any other language (the frontend) so would just implement the comms between the two applications in each application respectively. Thanks again.

Good point Tator and since most of my apps are meant for more embedded platforms I may want to strongly investigate the gui builder and if it is meant for desktop apps may utilize to many resources for embedded platforms. Thanks

I don't have a great online resource I use. I live mostly off of man pages, since I do mostly Linux programming. You can try this site. The exact library though will depend on your platform. That site is geared toward *NIX sockets (based on BSD sockets), but the WinSock API is also heavily based on BSD sockets, and is probably 90% portable. I couldn't even guess where to find info on Java sockets programming though. I also don't know what kind of support you will have for your embedded platforms -- many of them are pared down versions of *NIX or WinSock APIs, but you will need to check the docs or the manufacturer's website.

Trinity ... if you're looking for a good intro to Winsock (Windows Sockets networking) you can have a read Here