Cleanly separate GUI socket-related code from net library.

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / unix / apptbase.h

diff --git a/include/wx/unix/apptbase.h b/include/wx/unix/apptbase.h
index 4ec132c140f46e01f2cee64691073f283fc474e9..8bf6b4cb97efe82b83880420ab01a666581ad5c6 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/unix/apptbase.h
+++ b/include/wx/unix/apptbase.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 struct wxEndProcessData;
 struct wxExecuteData;
+class wxFDIOManager;
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // wxAppTraits: the Unix version adds extra hooks needed by Unix code
@@ -42,6 +43,18 @@ public:
     // loop
     virtual int AddProcessCallback(wxEndProcessData *data, int fd);
 
+#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
 
 protected:
     // a helper for the implementation of WaitForChild() in wxGUIAppTraits: