[kepler-dev] Duplicate Vergil classes

[Shawn Bowers]

Hi Christopher,

Basically, all I wanted to do was to add a menu item (for the time being 
...) to the right-click menu on ports. I also did the same for actors.

I agree that having duplicated code is a bad idea.

Right now, though, I don't have time to extend ptolemy to make this more 
configurable. Also, the use of right click menus for what I am adding 
may not be the final "entry point" into the additions I'm trying to make 
-- so until that is finalized, I just started "hacking" to get it up and 
running for now ;-)

I think that we (speaking for the "kepler" project) need ourselves to 
figure out what GUI extensions we ultimately want and then come up with 
a plan for how to achieve these extensions, including any mechanisms for 
making Vergil more extensible/customizable. Right now, I think we are 
still in the "experimental" and "fleshing it out" stage.

Generally speaking, I think making all right-click menus customizable 
would help a lot ... but that might be a lot of work.

Thanks,
shawn




Christopher Brooks wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> Is there anyway we can modify the parent class in the Ptolemy II cvs
> repository so that you extend ptolemy.vergil.actor.IOPortController
> instead of doing a wholesale copy of the class?
> 
> If you don't yet have write access to the Ptolemy II cvs repository,
> I'm more than willing to give it to you so you could add extension
> points to Ptolemy II. 
> 
> The reason is that we have gotten in to quite a bit of trouble
> maintenance-wise when we have duplicated code.  The JNI and Single
> Window code from Thales caused Edward no end of grief when
> he went to update the copied base classes.
> 
> Anyway, the up shot is that I'm more than willing to help out
> if we can avoid duplicate code.
> 
> _Christopher