ComponentCore

If you wish to create your own Components you need to understand few design choices. Every component in RadCat inherits from a BaseComponent class. This class has 2 methods and a variable,

• virtual void update(){} function updates automaticly every CPU cycle.
• virtual bool initialize(){} function runs automaticly inside constructors.
• EmptyDevice* parent holds the parent device and assigned automaticly by the system when the device is created.

When you create a component you need to include base component with #include "componentCore.hpp" and inherit from base component with COMPONENT class FTDIConnection : public BaseComponent . COMPONENT is a special macro that makes some forward declarations for you. Also every component needs to have a constructor with a device set as template<typename DeviceType> CompName(DeviceType& parentDevice) : parent(&parentDevice) . This constructor is called automatically from devices so you dont need to call it manually at the device level.

Inside your CPP file you need to include device core with #include "deviceCore.hpp" otherwise your component will not compile!

Here is a component template for creators:

HPP:

#pragma once
#include "componentCore.hpp"

COMPONENT class MyNewComponent : public BaseComponent {
public:
    template<typename DeviceType> FTDIConnection(DeviceType& parentDevice) : parent(&parentDevice) {Initialize()}
    virtual void update() override;
    virtual bool Initialize() override;
    //More functions and variables here
}

CPP:

#include "deviceCore.hpp"

void MyNewComponent::update(){//Something here}
bool MyNewComponent::Initialize(){//Something here}