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QCopChannel Class Reference

The QCopChannel class provides communication capabilities between several clients. More...

#include <qcopchannel_qws.h>

Inherits QObject.

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Detailed Description

The QCopChannel class provides communication capabilities between several clients.

The Qt Cop (QCOP) is a COmmunication Protocol, allowing clients to communicate both within the same address space and between different processes.

Currently, this facility is only available on Qt/Embedded. On X11 and Windows we are exploring the use of existing standards such as DCOP and COM.

QCopChannel provides send() and isRegistered() which are static functions that are usable without an object.

The channel() function returns the name of the channel.

In order to listen to the traffic on a channel, you should either subclass QCopChannel and reimplement receive(), or connect() to the received() signal.


Member Function Documentation

QCopChannel::QCopChannel ( const QCString & channel, QObject * parent = 0, const char * name = 0 )

Constructs a QCop channel and registers it with the server using the name channel. The standard parent and name arguments are passed on to the QObject constructor.

QCopChannel::~QCopChannel () [virtual]

Destroys the client's end of the channel and notifies the server that the client has closed its connection. The server will keep the channel open until the last registered client detaches.

QCString QCopChannel::channel () const

Returns the name of the channel.

bool QCopChannel::isRegistered ( const QCString & channel ) [static]

Queries the server for the existance of channel.

Returns TRUE if channel is registered.

void QCopChannel::receive ( const QCString & msg, const QByteArray & data ) [virtual]

This virtual function allows subclasses of QCopChannel to process data received from their channel.

The default implementation emits the received() signal.

Note that the format of data has to be well defined in order to extract the information it contains.

See also send().

void QCopChannel::received ( const QCString & msg, const QByteArray & data ) [signal]

This signal is emitted whenever the receive() function gets incoming data.

bool QCopChannel::send ( const QCString & channel, const QCString & msg ) [static]

Send the message msg on channel channel. The message will be distributed to all clients subscribed to the channel.

See also receive().

bool QCopChannel::send ( const QCString & channel, const QCString & msg, const QByteArray & data ) [static]

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.

Same as above function except the additional data parameter.

Note that QDataStream provides a convenient way to fill the byte array with auxiliary data.


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