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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: dialup.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxDialUpManager
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 @class wxDialUpManager
11 @wxheader{dialup.h}
12
13 This class encapsulates functions dealing with verifying the connection
14 status of the workstation (connected to the Internet via a direct
15 connection, connected through a modem or not connected at all) and to
16 establish this connection if possible/required (i.e. in the case of the
17 modem).
18
19 The program may also wish to be notified about the change in the connection
20 status (for example, to perform some action when the user connects to the
21 network the next time or, on the contrary, to stop receiving data from the
22 net when the user hangs up the modem). For this, you need to use one of the
23 event macros described below.
24
25 This class is different from other wxWidgets classes in that there is at
26 most one instance of this class in the program accessed via Create() and
27 you can't create the objects of this class directly.
28
29 @beginEventTable{wxDialUpEvent}
30 @event{EVT_DIALUP_CONNECTED(func)}
31 A connection with the network was established.
32 @event{EVT_DIALUP_DISCONNECTED(func)}
33 The connection with the network was lost.
34 @endEventTable
35
36 @library{wxcore}
37 @category{net}
38
39 @see @ref page_samples_dialup, wxDialUpEvent
40 */
41 class wxDialUpManager
42 {
43 public:
44 /**
45 Destructor.
46 */
47 ~wxDialUpManager();
48
49 /**
50 Cancel dialing the number initiated with Dial() with async parameter
51 equal to @true.
52
53 @note This won't result in a DISCONNECTED event being sent.
54
55 @see IsDialing()
56 */
57 bool CancelDialing();
58
59 /**
60 This function should create and return the object of the
61 platform-specific class derived from wxDialUpManager. You should delete
62 the pointer when you are done with it.
63 */
64 wxDialUpManager* Create();
65
66 /**
67 Dial the given ISP, use @a username and @a password to authenticate.
68
69 The parameters are only used under Windows currently, for Unix you
70 should use SetConnectCommand() to customize this functions behaviour.
71
72 If no @a nameOfISP is given, the function will select the default one
73 (proposing the user to choose among all connections defined on this
74 machine) and if no username and/or password are given, the function
75 will try to do without them, but will ask the user if really needed.
76
77 If @a async parameter is @false, the function waits until the end of
78 dialing and returns @true upon successful completion.
79
80 If @a async is @true, the function only initiates the connection and
81 returns immediately - the result is reported via events (an event is
82 sent anyhow, but if dialing failed it will be a DISCONNECTED one).
83 */
84 bool Dial(const wxString& nameOfISP = wxEmptyString,
85 const wxString& username = wxEmptyString,
86 const wxString& password = wxEmptyString,
87 bool async = true);
88
89 /**
90 Disable automatic check for connection status change - notice that the
91 @c wxEVT_DIALUP_XXX events won't be sent any more neither.
92 */
93 void DisableAutoCheckOnlineStatus();
94
95 /**
96 Enable automatic checks for the connection status and sending of
97 wxEVT_DIALUP_CONNECTED/wxEVT_DIALUP_DISCONNECTED events. The interval
98 parameter is only for Unix where we do the check manually and specifies
99 how often should we repeat the check (each minute by default). Under
100 Windows, the notification about the change of connection status is sent
101 by the system and so we don't do any polling and this parameter is
102 ignored.
103
104 @returns @false if couldn't set up automatic check for online status.
105 */
106 bool EnableAutoCheckOnlineStatus(size_t nSeconds = 60);
107
108 /**
109 This function is only implemented under Windows.
110
111 Fills the array with the names of all possible values for the first
112 parameter to Dial() on this machine and returns their number (may be
113 0).
114 */
115 size_t GetISPNames(wxArrayString& names) const;
116
117 /**
118 Hang up the currently active dial up connection.
119 */
120 bool HangUp();
121
122 /**
123 Returns @true if the computer has a permanent network connection (i.e.
124 is on a LAN) and so there is no need to use Dial() function to go
125 online.
126
127 @note This function tries to guess the result and it is not always
128 guaranteed to be correct, so it is better to ask user for
129 confirmation or give him a possibility to override it.
130 */
131 bool IsAlwaysOnline() const;
132
133 /**
134 Returns @true if (async) dialing is in progress.
135
136 @see Dial()
137 */
138 bool IsDialing() const;
139
140 /**
141 Returns @true if the dialup manager was initialized correctly. If this
142 function returns @false, no other functions will work neither, so it is
143 a good idea to call this function and check its result before calling
144 any other wxDialUpManager methods.
145 */
146 bool IsOk() const;
147
148 /**
149 Returns @true if the computer is connected to the network: under
150 Windows, this just means that a RAS connection exists, under Unix we
151 check that the "well-known host" (as specified by SetWellKnownHost())
152 is reachable.
153 */
154 bool IsOnline() const;
155
156 /**
157 This method is for Unix only.
158
159 Sets the commands to start up the network and to hang up again.
160 */
161 void SetConnectCommand(const wxString& commandDial = "/usr/bin/pon",
162 const wxString& commandHangup = "/usr/bin/poff") const;
163
164 /**
165 Sometimes the built-in logic for determining the online status may
166 fail, so, in general, the user should be allowed to override it. This
167 function allows to forcefully set the online status - whatever our
168 internal algorithm may think about it.
169
170 @see IsOnline()
171 */
172 void SetOnlineStatus(bool isOnline = true);
173
174 /**
175 This method is for Unix only.
176
177 Under Unix, the value of well-known host is used to check whether we're
178 connected to the internet. It is unused under Windows, but this
179 function is always safe to call. The default value is
180 @c "www.yahoo.com:80".
181 */
182 void SetWellKnownHost(const wxString& hostname, int portno = 80);
183 };
184
185
186
187 /**
188 @class wxDialUpEvent
189 @wxheader{dialup.h}
190
191 This is the event class for the dialup events sent by wxDialUpManager.
192
193 @library{wxcore}
194 @category{events}
195 */
196 class wxDialUpEvent : public wxEvent
197 {
198 public:
199 /**
200 Constructor is only used by wxDialUpManager.
201 */
202 wxDialUpEvent(bool isConnected, bool isOwnEvent);
203
204 /**
205 Is this a @c CONNECTED or @c DISCONNECTED event? In other words, does
206 it notify about transition from offline to online state or vice versa?
207 */
208 bool IsConnectedEvent() const;
209
210 /**
211 Does this event come from wxDialUpManager::Dial() or from some extrenal
212 process (i.e. does it result from our own attempt to establish the
213 connection)?
214 */
215 bool IsOwnEvent() const;
216 };
217