I'm trying to implement a command listener in my program, but I'm not sure what the best approach to this is.

What I have so far is just a basic loop in a dedicated thread that'll intercept commands.

My idea is to make the thread listen on a port and execute commands that way somehow...

Anyone know of an efficient and practical way to do this?

This post was edited by SelfTaught on Jun 9 2014 11:06pm

I think what you mean is "command or argument parser" not listener, if that's it you can use google there is quite a few libraries around

I want to pass commands to the program while it's running not just during initial execution.

Doesnt matter if its at execution or runtime, the library will help you parse the string containing your commands and options