Parallel Tick (parallelTick)

Table of Contents

• Plugin Entry Points

The Parallel Tick example demonstrates the following:

• How to write a thread safe component

vrfParallelTick_1

This example shows the skeleton of a thread safe component.

• Marks component as thread safe in creator function.
• Calls locking functions in tick function.

Plugin Entry Points

/*******************************************************************************
** Copyright (c) 2003 MAK Technologies, Inc.
** All rights reserved.
*******************************************************************************/
/*******************************************************************************
** $RCSfile: plugin.cxx,v $ $Revision: 1.4 $ $State: Exp $
*******************************************************************************/

#include "vrfcgf/vrfPluginExtension.h"
#include "parallelTickActuator.h"

#include <vrfcgf/cgf.h>
#include <vrfcgf/factoryManager.h>
#include <vrfobjcore/simComponentTypes.h>

extern "C" {

   DT_VRF_DLL_PLUGIN void DtPluginInformation(DtVrfPluginInformation& info)
   {
      info.pluginName = "Parallel Tick";
      info.pluginVersion = "1.00";
      info.pluginCreator = "MAK Technologies";
      info.pluginCreatorEmail = "sales@mak.com";
      info.pluginContactWebPage = "www.mak.com";
      info.pluginContactMailingAddress = "150 Cambridge Park Drive 3rd Floor - Cambridge, MA 02140 USA";
      info.pluginContactPhone = "(617) 876 8085";
   }

   DT_VRF_DLL_PLUGIN bool DtInitializeVrfPlugin(DtCgf* cgf)
   {
      //Register the creation function for our derived actuator with the
      //DtSimComponentFactory.
      cgf->factoryManager()->componentFactory()->addCreatorFcn(
         MyParallelTickComponent::Tag, MyParallelTickComponent::creator);
      
      return true;
   }
}