The Palette and Editing Panel

the makVrf::DtAutoHidePanel class the the manager that contains the tabs that show up on the right hand side of the gui and the dialogs they represent.

The makVrf::DtAutoHidePanel manages makVrf::DtAutoHidePanelItem classes that wrap a makVrf::DtAutoHideDock that contains a particular property dialog to display. When creating the initial auto hide panel, the default_guiConfiguration.gui file is used to see this panel

<pagecollection pagecollectionname="DtAutoHidePanel" title="Creation Panel" location="9" visible="True" index="-1" show="EntityCreationPalette" closable="True" floatable="True" movable="True">
   <pageitem pageitemname="EntityCreationPalette"/>
   <pageitem pageitemname="ORBATCreationPalette"/>
   <pageitem pageitemname="TacticalGraphicCreationPalette"/>
   <pageitem pageitemname="PropCreationPalette"/>
</pagecollection>

When editing or modifying an object in the simulation, the Object Modifier Dialog Manager is used in conjunction with this class to create a new dock tab and dock widget

         DtVrfObjectModifierDialogCreator* thisEntitysDialogCreator = thisEntitysDialogCreationParameters->objectModifierDialogCreator();

         if (thisEntitysDialogCreator)
         {
            // Get the name of the object to be created to set to the Title string
            QString title(QObject::tr("Create %1").arg(QString::fromUtf8(findEntityTypeName(thisEntityType).c_str())));

            //create the dialog from the creator object
            myObjectPropertiesDlg = thisEntitysDialogCreator->create(myDe, qtMainWindow, thisEntityType, title, signalCreate,
               DtCreateAndEditObjectDialogInterface::DtCreationMode, Context);

            //force dialog to appear when creating specified objects in plans (generally control objects)

            bool forceDialogToAppear = ((signalCreate == DtSignalCreationAndStop ) && thisEntitysDialogCreationParameters->forceDialogToAppearInPlans());

            // Add the dialog into the autohide panel

            //WHD: This can probably be reduced to:
            //DtAutoHidePanel::instance(de)->addItem(myObjectPropertiesDlg, forceDialogToAppear);
            //myObjectPropertiesDlg->hideDialog();
            // since all possible myObjectPropertiesDlg are children of DtAutoHideDock
            // and it's hard to conceive of a scenario in which the DE can't return an instance
            DtAutoHidePanel* thisAutoHidePanel = DtAutoHidePanel::instance(myDe);

            if (thisAutoHidePanel)
            {
               thisAutoHidePanel->addItem(dynamic_cast<DtAutoHideDock*>(myObjectPropertiesDlg), forceDialogToAppear);

               if (!forceDialogToAppear)
               {
                  myObjectPropertiesDlg->hideDialog();
               }
            }

            myObjectPropertiesDlg->setForce(force);

            signal_dialogCreated(myObjectPropertiesDlg);
         }

All dock widgets assigned to display are of the subclass makVrf::DtAutoHideDock. If you wish to add a new tab to the auto hide panel for functionality you wish to allow the user to select, you can add a an item to the makVrf::DtAutoHidePanel via the addItem call. This will add a new tab to the dock based on your design. Note that title and icon methods of the auto hide dock will be used to fill in the tab

   QString DtEntityCreatePalette::title()
   {
      return tr("Simulation Objects");
   }

   QIcon DtEntityCreatePalette::icon()
   {
      std::string dataPath = myDe.dePathConfiguration().dataPath();
      dataPath += "/Icons/ObjectCreate.svg";

      return QIcon(QString::fromStdString(dataPath));
   }

   DtQIconConfigurations DtEntityCreatePalette::qIconConfigurations() const
   {
      DtQIconConfigurations result;
      result.addConfiguration(DtQIconConfiguration("ObjectCreate.svg"));
      return result;
   }

   const std::string& DtEntityCreatePalette::pageClassName() const
   {
      return thePageClassName();
   }

   const std::string& DtEntityCreatePalette::thePageClassName()
   {
      static std::string theClassName ="EntityCreationPalette";
      return theClassName;
   } 

As with other page manipulation, if you wish to remove the palettes from the display, you can either remove them from the gui file or use a plugin to remove them from code (Dock Widget and Toolbar Configuration).