+#if wxUSE_SOCKETS
+ // return a pointer to the object which should be used to integrate
+ // monitoring of the file descriptors to the event loop (currently this is
+ // used for the sockets only but should be used for arbitrary event loop
+ // sources in the future)
+ //
+ // this object may be different for the console and GUI applications
+ //
+ // the pointer is not deleted by the caller as normally it points to a
+ // static variable
+ virtual wxFDIOManager *GetFDIOManager();
+#endif // wxUSE_SOCKETS