Wind River Systems encourages users and third parties to customize the Tornado environment and to add features to it. This chapter describes how to create a new Tornado tool and add it to the Tornado launcher (in the UNIX environment) or to the Tornado launch toolbar (in the Windows environment). It also provides information about sharing Tornado development such as enhancements of existing tools or useful utilities with other users.

The Tornado environment is structured to make adding tools easy. For information on coding conventions and the Tornado tree, see A. Tcl Coding Conventions and VxWorks Programmer's Guide: C Coding Conventions.