This is a simple voting server developed for the third laboratory in the course ECE312 at Univerity of Alberta.

Features:

• listens on a TCP port for multiple connections
• the user can select a question and open a new poll
• broadcasts the status to the clients
• displays the results of voting

This package containts two additional servers besides the voting server:

• Echo Server: A TCP server that accepts connections and echos every line it receives
• Toggle Server: A TCP server that periodically sends "active" and "inactive" to connected clients

All examples assume that the application is installed in a virtual environmet.

To run the server GUI application:

cd ece312-clicker
source venv/bin/activate
python -m ece312_clicker.gui

To run the Echo Server:

cd ece312-clicker
source venv/bin/activate
python -m ece312_clicker.echo_server

To run the Toggle Server:

cd ece312-clicker
source venv/bin/activate
python -m ece312_clicker.toggle_server

The default TCP ports are as follows:

Example of installation in a separate virtual environment:

git clone https://github.com/tommz9/ece312-clicker.git
cd ece312-clicker
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Requirements are handelend by setup.py.

• click: for the command line parameters

MIT

ece312_clicker was written by Tomas Barton <[email protected]>_.