Contents User Forum Source Index APIs by Task APIs by Level Data G3D::NetworkDevice Class Reference An abstraction over sockets that provides a message based network infrastructure optimized for sending many small (>500 byte) messages. More... #include <NetworkDevice.h> List of all members. Public Member Functions void  describeSystem (std::string &s) void  describeSystem (TextOutput &t) void  localHostAddresses (Array< NetAddress > &array) const std::string  localHostName () const   ~NetworkDevice () Static Public Member Functions static void  cleanup () static NetworkDevice *  instance () Friends class  Conduit class  LightweightConduit class  NetListener class  ReliableConduit Detailed Description An abstraction over sockets that provides a message based network infrastructure optimized for sending many small (>500 byte) messages. All functions always return immediately. Create only one NetworkDevice per-process (WinSock restriction). NetworkDevice is technically not thread safe. However, as long as you use different conduits on different threads (or lock conduits before sending), you will encounter no problems sharing the single NetworkDevice across multiple threads. That is, do not invoke a Conduit's send or receive method on two threads at once. This assumes that the underlying WinSock/BSD sockets implementation is thread safe. That is not guaranteed, but in practice seems to always be true (e.g. http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/intermediate.html#threadsafety) Constructor & Destructor Documentation G3D::NetworkDevice::~NetworkDevice (  )  Member Function Documentation static void G3D::NetworkDevice::cleanup (  )  [static] Shuts down the network device (destroying the global instance). void G3D::NetworkDevice::describeSystem ( std::string &  s  )  void G3D::NetworkDevice::describeSystem ( TextOutput &  t  )  Prints a human-readable description of this machine to the text output stream. Either argument may be NULL. static NetworkDevice* G3D::NetworkDevice::instance (  )  [static] Returns NULL if there was a problem initializing the network. void G3D::NetworkDevice::localHostAddresses ( Array< NetAddress > &  array  )  const There is often more than one address for the local host. This returns all of them. std::string G3D::NetworkDevice::localHostName (  )  const Returns the name of this computer. Friends And Related Function Documentation friend class Conduit [friend] friend class LightweightConduit [friend] friend class NetListener [friend] friend class ReliableConduit [friend] The documentation for this class was generated from the following file: NetworkDevice.h Hosted by