plugin's GUI in OpenSim GUI?

[Tomas Kment]

Hello,

I have a plugin written in C++ and my task is to make GUI for the plugin. There are two approaches that I can think of. Extern GUI, that's not fixed to OpenSim GUI at all or Intern GUI. I'm interested in the intern approach. Is there a way that I can customize OpenSim GUI without adding or modifying GUI source code?

To be more specific, here is an example. I would like to have an item in menubar where Tools are located. This item would OnClick show my window (form) with my GUI that would modify plugin's (written in C++) values or run the plugin. Is there a way to make this possible? Have you encountered this kind of approach before? If this approach is not possible or viable would the extern approach work?

Thanks in advance,
Tomas

[Nathan Pickle]

Hi Tomas,
I have also looked into this briefly, and the documentation page below should get you started:

https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu:8 ... UI+Modules

It's a little outdated, but I have been able to use this general workflow to add an item to the OpenSim GUI menus.

Depending on what you're doing, you will likely end up needing to write a little bit of your own code to run the plugin. That's not something I have tried yet, but the OpenSim dev team may be able to help you once you get to that point.

-Nathan

[Tomas Kment]

Thanks a lot Nathan, that's what I have been looking for! This should get me started, if not, I will try to ask devs

-Tomas