Important Classes

VR-Forces contains hundreds of classes, but the vast majority of projects can be completed by using several core classes.

GUI Classes

Classes that focus on the GUI and different things one might want to do with the GUI

GUI Components

These classes represent some of the main parts of the VR-Forces GUI.

• DtVrfGuiApplication - The central Gui class, inherits from makVrv::DtVrvApplication.
• DtVrfGuiConfiguration - Allows you to change the GUI in some ways.
• makVrv::DtDe - Display Engine which several GUI components take as an argument.
• DtLocalObjectManager - Manager used to create objects in the GUI only, not on the network.

Front-end Customizations

Classes that assist in customizing the GUI. Some of these will be used directly while others will be inherited to customize the GUI.

• DtVrfMainMenu - Central class for modifying the menu bar aside from a few specific cases
• DtTaskMenu - Central class for modifying the task menu in both the menu bar and the right click task menu
• DtSetMenu - Central class for modifying the set menu in both the menu bar and the right click set menu
• DtCreateMenu - Central class for modifying the create menu in both the menu bar and the right click create menu
• DtVrfRightClickMenu - Central class for modifying the right click menu aside from the specific cases
• DtVrfTaskSetMenuItem - Base class for task/set menu items
• DtBaseTaskSetDialogInterface - Base class for task/set dialogs

Front-end to Back-end Communications and Data Gathering

Classes that deal with the two communicating with each other and transmitting data

• DtGuiThreadVrfRemoteController - GUI remote control interface class for controlling the back-end.
• DtNetworkMessageCallbackManager - GUI manager for registering callbacks to be invoked when messages are received from the back-end.
• DtVrfStateViewCollectionManager - Class that can be used to find data about simulation objects.
• DtObjectDataInterface, DtEntityDataInterface, DtAggregateDataInterface, DtTacticalGraphicDataInterface - Classes to encapsulate simulation data in an easily accessible format.

Simulation Engine (Back-End) Classes

Classes that focus on the SIM and different things one might want to do with the Simulation Engine.

Simulation Engine Components

These classes represent some of the main parts of the VR-Forces Sim Engine.

• DtCgf - The central Sim class.
  • DtSimManager - Manages most of the other manager objects such as the DtVrfObjectManager, and DtOrganizationManager.
  • DtReaderWriterRegistry - Commonly used for Process State Repositories.
  • DtSimComponent - Most VR-Forces classes are Sim Components.

Entity Objects and Messages

Classes that deal with entities and messages with entities.

• DtVrfObject - Base class for all simulated entities.
• DtObjectType - Commonly used to determine the type of a particular DtVrfObject.
• DtVrfObjectMessage - Base message class for object interaction.
• DtTaskControllerComponent - Base task controller component. Inherits from DtSimComponent.
• DtVrfProcessStateRepository - Base Process State Repository component.
• DtComponentDescriptor - Base Descriptor class.
• DtSimTask - Base task class.

Other

Useful classes for various situations.

• DtVrfRemoteController - Remote controller API main class.
• DtReflectedExtEntityList - Often used to get entity data in a simulation. There are also other versions of this such as those that get control objects and aggregates. Replace "Entity" in the class name with "Aggregate" for instance, and you have the class for that particular reflected list.
• DtReaderWriter - The central class of the VR-Forces ReaderWriter system, for serializing objects to files, and reading them back in.