[kepler-dev] EML200DataSource Problems

Chad Berkley berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Oct 7 14:46:51 PDT 2004


Hmm, I haven't worked with changing the icons at all but i know there is 
code to do this because that's how they do the "animate execution" 
thing.  Maybe you have to file a ChangeRequest?  I'm just kind of 
guessing at this point without looking into it more.  sorry.

chad

Rod Spears wrote:
> I have found a bug in the EML200DataSource, but that is a separate bug 
> from the ports not updating, it's a bug JIng told me about.
> 
> It's my belief that it is a Ptolemy issue that the ports don't update. 
> Also, I sent an email on this while back and didn't get a satisfactory 
> answer. When I change the iconDescription attribute to a different SVG 
> icon description it does not get updated on the screen until I move the 
> icon.
> 
> In my local build I changed the RecordResult to initially have "busy" 
> icon (as was suggested) and then when the ports are configured it 
> changes itself to the icon we all know and love. But I'll say it again, 
> the icon does not update unless I click on it and move it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on why this is?
> 
> Rod
> 
> Chad Berkley wrote:
> 
>> I just tried this and get the same results...when i drag the bears 
>> dataset out, it has no ports.  I then move the actor on the canvas and 
>> 3 ports appear.  If I search for datos, find the datos dataset then 
>> drag it out, it has no ports.  i then move the datos dataset and a 
>> bunch of ports appear on the actor.  the bear actor, however, does not 
>> change when i move the datos dataset.  I did not see that the number 
>> of ports for the bear actor was incorrect, although the first time i 
>> tried this, kepler completely froze while I was doing the 2nd search.  
>> I couldn't repro that though.
>>
>> chad
>>
>> Dan Higgins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rod,
>>>    I was playing around with the Data tab in Kepler and ran into some 
>>> strange behaviors (bugs?) that you may know how to fix (unless it is 
>>> just on my machine).
>>>
>>> 1) Open a new Graph Editor. Then click on the 'Data' tab and search 
>>> for 'bear'. The dataset "Bears are Really big" will appear in the 
>>> tree. Drag it to the panel on the right. Everything is OK so far. [I 
>>> see that now no output port no automatically appear and that one has 
>>> to "Look Inside" to configure a table. I think it might be useful to 
>>> have a default output of the table as a string (or a parameter to set 
>>> that)].
>>>
>>> 2) Before you 'Look Inside', just drag the icon around to a new 
>>> location. Three output ports appear when you finish moving the actor!
>>>
>>> 3) Now do another search (leaving the 'bears' actor in place), say 
>>> for 'datos' and drag the result to the right. Now move this second 
>>> actor. I get a bunch of output ports appearing on BOTH the datos and 
>>> the bear dataset! The number for the 'bears' actor is NOT correct!
>>>
>>> Can you reproduce this?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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