Manual control of a Glacier2 client

[mmorckos]

Hi,

I'm quite a beginner in Ice and I'm working on an application where I need a component to use a Glacier2 client as a communication port to some server. All the demos and examples I read have the client program inheret from Glacier2::Application and calling the "main" function which takes care of session creation and the main event loop.

What I want is manual control over the client so that the main event loop will reside in my component and not the Glacier2 client. The component can manual create/destroy sessions, send messages...etc.

Regards,
Michael

[xdm]

Hi,

For Java and C# there are also GUI Helper Classes see java/demo/Glacier2/chat or cs/demo/Glacier2/chat for sample usage. The Chat Demo also made use of these classes.

[mmorckos]

Hi,

I forgot to mention that I'm looking for such functionality in C++. I read the Java example before but I'm having some hard time porting it to C++ so I'm wondering if it's feasible in the first place.

I apologize for that.

Regards,
Michael

[xdm]

A C++ version of this classes is available with IceTouch-1.2.0 C++ SDK, download the source distribution and see files under "IceTouch-1.2.0/cpp/src/Glacier2Lib/" directory, you can compile that files with your C++ application and will probably work, let us know if you found any issue. Next Ice release is likely to also include that GUI C++ helpers.

[mmorckos]

Hi,

This sounds like a good idea but I'm working on a highly distributed system involving robotic entities. I don't actually need to have a GUI but I'm following a component-based methodology in my design and wanted to separate the communication port (Client) from the rest of the application. I'm pretty sure there is a work-around.

Thanks for you prompt response.

Regards,
Michael

[xdm]

Note that even we have named it "GUI Helper Classes" this classes aren't GUI specific just that the common use cases is GUI applications. Also if you look at the implementation you will see what is required to manually create something similar that is more appropriate to your needs.