On Thursday 07 August 2008 04:00:39 Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
I'm writing a GUI library, and I wanted to use the asio concepts in it. For example, I find it very compelling that every window has a member-function that returns a io_service::strand to which one can post messages to the window thread. This would work well with all mainstream toolkits and the win32 API. But how would this work with asio implementation? Can a service be appended to a io_service, and have its own demultiplexer function control the thread running the run member function?
You can make your own service that has a thread of its own (like the resolver service does) and from it you can post() events to the io_service event queue so that the thread(s) that perform run() on the io_service will handle them. This is a pretty generic way one can handle any asynchronous sources to asio (by using additional threads). -- Mihai RUSU Email: dizzy@roedu.net "Linux is obsolete" -- AST