[wx-dev] horror with wxUrl::GetInputStream

[Christian Buhtz]

Code like this doesn't work...


wxSocketBase::Initialize();
wxURL url(ANY_URL);
wxInputStream * stream = url.GetInputStream();


...because the call of wxUrl::GetInputStream() "freez" the application.

The forum is full of post about that.
There are some solutions and workarounds.

1. Downloading a file with wxUrl should be done in a extra thread.
2. Use a third-party lib (e.g. wxDownloadFile)

I don't want to blow up my code for such a simple task with foreign 
code. By the way is wxDownloadFile very ugly and unprofessional code.

Is it realy so hard to download a file with wxUrl?

How can I do this?

btw: My application is not event driven. There is no window!