General Info
Users can connect to a chatroom and communicate with each other.
Learning outcomes
- Multithreading to handle concurrent connections and user interface interaction
- Sending and receiving data over windows socket
- Qt usage
Components
- Windows Socket Programming
- Qt framework for GUI
- Server
- Thread to accept new socket and handles from then on
- Client
- Thread to receive message
- Send message based on “Send” button or “Enter” detection from GUI
- Qt
- User decides connection type (Server/Client)
- User prompted to enter name as client
- Allows users to send message using button or when “enter” is detected in the send box
- Automatically scrolls chatbox
- Link to website provided
- Server