[Gtkhx-dev] GtkHx File Transfers

[Misha N. <mi...@na...>]

Hi,

I've just cleaned up the file transfer code quite a bit. It now uses
pthreads and no longer uses the pipe() method for file update
information; I just have the thread call the file_update function
itself, with appropriate gtk_threads wrappers, of course.

Also, I've began adding preliminary file preview code. I added a
rather large comment in xfers.c explaining how it should work:

/* XXX: we need some kind of plugin schematic where a plugin registers
itself for a given creator/type and the preview function looks for
a plugin to match the file it is about to download and loads a 
session with a plugin, if such a plugin exists, passes it on to here
so that here we can pass the data into that session, otherwise
we tell the user that no plugin exists for such data. we must also
take into consideration that the person may be viewing some large
file. do we want to keep this in memory or save to /tmp? */

One may fear bloat in this situation, like HL Comm's client, but I am
keeping the client bloat-free by having all the viewers be in separate
plugins.
-- 
Misha Nasledov
mi...@na...
http://nasledov.com/misha/