VR-Forces GUI Examples

VR-Forces comes with a number of code examples. These examples can be useful as starting points for extending the VR-Forces front-end.

Plug-in Examples

Plug-in examples are dynamically linked libraries that are loaded using the GUI menu "Settings->Plugins" dialog.

Add Attribute	Publish additional information by extending the VR-Forces entity state repository. Also details how to add items to the entity info dialog. Related to back-end example Add Attribute
Add Set	Add a new set data request command. Related to back-end example Add Set
Add Simulation Command	Add a new simulation command. Related to back-end example Add Command
Add Task	Add a new kind of task. Related to back-end example Add Task
Add Conditional	Add a new conditional statement. Related to back-end example Add Condition
Custom Control Object	Add a new custom control object with custom parameters and dialog.
Entity List	Add a new panel that displays all existing entities and their current task.
GUI Local Create Object	Creates objects in the GUI without publishing them on the network.
GUI Object Data Interface	Demonstrates how to easily retrieve simulation data for published objects.
GUI Thread VRF Remote Controller	Demonstrates how to control a back-end from the GUI thread.
Interface Content	Send an interface content message. Related to back-end example Interface Content
Interface Manipulation	Creates "Simple Scenario Player" and "Simple Scenario Viewer" GUI options with sharply limited user options.
Menu Manipulation	Manipulates the menu, changing it from the system default
Modify Set	Overrides the existing set dialog
Modify Task	Overrides the existing task dialog
Network Callback Manager	How to receive callbacks for VR-Forces and VR-Link published content.
Object Filter	How to filter objects on the map display.
Spot Report Manipulation	Manipulates the selection of spot reports
Unit Status	Add a new toolbar to the window

VR-Vantage examples

The VR-Forces front-end is based on the VR-Vantage toolkit and so the VR-Vantage examples are also included with VR-Forces. VR-Vantage uses a different plug-in system and are activated via a different mechansim. For details please see the VR-Vantage section of the How to Build documentation.

• exampleAccessory - Shows how to create an accessory to extend a driver.
• exampleBulletHole - Shows how to create a visualizer to display a detonation interaction as a bullet hole.
• exapleConfiguration - A stand along application that shows how to create a display configuration.
• exampleCreateObserver - This example shows how to create an observer.
• exampleCustom - Create a new stand-alone application
• exampleDialogPage - This example shows how to add a dialog box and dialog box page to the GUI, and how to manage persistent settings.
• exampleCoordinateDisplay - Shows how to add a new coordinate system and integrate it with the applications coordinate display settings.
• exampleDialogPage - Shows how to add a page to a dialog box.
• exampleDisplayUnits - Shows how to use convert values and display them using the application's display units settings.
• exampleDistributedDraw - Creates a driver that that controls a distributed draw object.
• exampleDialogByAddition - This tutorial shows how to extend an existing dialog-page to add new functionality by deriving from the existing Page class and simply adding new widgets to it.
• exampleDialogByDerivationpage - This tutorial shows how to extend an existing dialog-page to add new functionality by deriving from the existing GUI and logic classes.
• exampleKeyMap - This example shows how to register a function with the Key Map Manager, and bind it to a key event in a key map.
• exampleSimData - Shows how to access simulation data.
• exampleSymbolDecoration - Shows how to add a symbol decoration to a 2d icon.
• exampleSymbolFacade1 - This example demonstrates how to add symbols to the scene in a PVD application.
• exampleSymbolFacade2 - This example shows how to extend exampleSymbolFacade1
• exampleSymbolFacade3 - This example shows how to extend exampleSymbolFacade2 for rotating symbols
• exampleSymbolFacade4 - This example shows how to extend exampleSymbolFacade2 for hiding symbols
• exampleSymbolFacade5 - This example shows how to extend exampleSymbolFacade2 for deleting symbols