Inter-thread Communication System (ITC)

(C) 2001 Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>

version 1.0beta2 2001-08-18 1:20am PDT

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Easy Stub system for calling functions in other threads.

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LICENSE: LGPL

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Bugs: 
- Namespace support is lacking, classes can't be nested (Very well)
- flex code looks like crap

Todo:
- switch to C lex (POSIX), instead of GNU's C++ version
- Switch to autoconf/automake (you don't want it to be too fast...)

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To use...

1) inherit* from ITC::Base
2) put all your exported functions under itcpublic: (behaves just like public)
3) run itcproc --header -o myclass.itc.h myclass.h
4) run itcproc -o myclass.itc.cpp myclass.h
5) #include "myclass.itc.h" above where you want to use the stubs
6) Instanciate the class that inherits ITC::Base
7) Instanciate the Stub class
8) call functions normally in the stub class

* It MUST end with "Impl"


Example:

FooImpl fooImpl;

// ... [ summon the thread ]

Foo foo(&fooImpl);

foo.whatever();

class FooImpl
{
itcpublic:
	void doThis(const vector<string> &strings);
	async doThat(); // it returns immediately from the stub
	
	double amazing();

//	void whatever(double); // ILLEGAL, double needs a typename
	void whatever(double d); // that's ok
};