ICDEThing Methods

This function is called by the NMI Engine and allows TheThing to create its UX Model The NMI Model is calling this method until IsUXInit returns true

Called by the cdeEngine when the Thing has been deleted from the Thing Registry.

Fires a specific event and calls all registered callbacks

Returns the current TheThing belonging to this class

Get a property of TheThing associated with this class

This is the main message Handler of TheThing. All incoming messages directed at this thing will be routed through this handler

To optimize runtime performance, this call can be used to check if there are any events registered under the EventName

This function will be called by TheThingRegistry when "RegisterThing" is called It is possible that TheThingRegistry calls this method multiple times. In fact when ever a new TheThing is registerd with TheThingRegistry, all Things that reply "IsInit()=false" will be called again.

The method needs to return true, if the class has already been initialized.

Similar to the IsInit Function IsUXInit should return true if the UX has been created.

New in V2.1 - Allows for other Plugins and Hosting Applications to listen to certain event.

Add a reference to TheThing, that will be used for serialization and communication. Basically TheThing is all the Mesh and storage persistant data of the class with the ICDEThing interface

Sets a property of TheThing associated with this class

Unregisters a previously registered event