46.7 Creating a Custom Client

You may wish to closely integrate an IcePatch2 client into your own applications, for example, to provide a graphical user interface, or to present detailed progress updates during patching.

The Ice for C++ distribution ships with a simple graphical IcePatch2 client, as shown in Figure 46.3.

Figure 46.3. A graphical IcePatch2 client.

You can find the source code for this client in the demo/IcePatch2/MFC directory of the Ice distribution. You can use the code in this demo as the basis for your own graphical client. The Slice interfaces for IcePatch2 are documented in the online Slice API Reference.