The RtdRMP Base Class

The base class is abstract. It contains basic RMP functionality that must be inherited by any class that uses RMP (e.g. the ability to create/join RMP groups and transmit data). It also defines virtual functions for general IO that must be overloaded by the sub-classes. The most important methods are as follows:

join() - joins the RMP group specified by the groupName_ property,
group_send(char *, int) - send the buffer (of given length) to the current group members,
detect(RMP *) (virtual) - detection loop to get RMP events and process them as required,
handle_event(RMPEvent *) (virtual) - event handler called by detection loop. Contains code for every possible RMP event, and acts according to the event type.
informUser(char *)(virtual) - output a message to the user.