[kepler-dev] open new Frame in Edit_parameter dialog

[Wei Lu]

Hi, Christopher
	Thanks for the guide, The TextEditorConfigureFactory.java code is
good enough for my developing. and I have implemented such a frame, and it
works very well

best
Wei

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Brooks wrote:

> Hi Wei
> The Ptolemizer demo at
> $PTII/ptolemy/actor/lib/python/demo/Ptolemnizer/Ptolemninzer.xml has a
> a PythonScript actor The PythonScript actor has an _editorFactory
> attribute.  When the user clicks on the icon, it pops up the editor.
>
> Below is the xml for this actor from that demo.
> In ptolemy, you can get at it with View->XML View
>
> The source code for the PythonScript actor is in Ptolemy, not Kepler
> You can look at the source code at
> http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII5.0/ptII5.0.1/ptolemy/actor/lib/python/PythonScript.java
>
> However, the key part is that the _model_ has xml that says to
> get the value for the script using a text editor:
>
>         <property name="_editorFactory"	class="ptolemy.vergil.toolbox.TextEditorConfigureFactory">
>             <property name="attributeName"
> 	    class="ptolemy.kernel.util.StringAttribute"
> 	    value="script">
>             </property>
>         </property>
>
> The documentation for the tableau system is out of date, there might
> have been some in the Ptolemy II design docs at one time, but it was
> removed. The best documentation is the source code.  Look at
> ptII/ptolemy/actor/gui/EditorFactory.java and
> ptII/ptolemy/vergil/toolbox/TextEditorConfigureFactory.java
>
>
> BTW - Thev reason that the the Python actor is not included in Kepler
> is because the Python actor actually uses Jython, a Java
> implementation Python.  When Jython starts up, it wants to write
> cache files for each jar file in the classpath.  Since Kepler has lots
> of jar files and also instantiates all the actors at run time, this
> was making startup very slow.  I think this is a bug in Jython, it
> also prevents using Jython in WebStart.
>
> As far as using ant, I run in to similar problems, where I'm editing
> ptolemy files and I want the changes to quickly show up in kepler.
> I've ended up hacking up the build.xml files so that $PTII is searched
> before ptolemy.jar.  You could try something similar.  I don't have
> any changes to check in, they are long gone.
>
> _Christopher
> --------
>
>
>     Seems I begin to understand the mechanism behind, so to create  a speical
>     frame  when clicking "look inside" menu, I frite have to my own tableau
>     class and tablea factory class, and then put into moml file as a property,
>     is it basically correct? If I can find some documents on this development
>     that will be greate (I can stop asking such basic questions)
>
>     Also I wonder to know what the correct step to make the kelper system
>     after change the preoperty in the moml file?  My step is
>     ant clean-full
>     ant ptolemy
>     ant compile
>     ant buildkarlib
>     rm ~/.kepler
>     ant run-dev
>
>     it works, but takes too much time. Is there any shortcut here? Thansk a
>     lot
>
>
>     Wei Lu
>
>
>
>
>     On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Wei Lu wrote:
>
>     >
>     > You mean PythonActor or PythonScript, seems to me PythonActor is the one
>    I
>     > am looking for (after clicking looking insdie, a frame is poped up), but
>    I
>     > can't find the source (java class) file for the PytonActor, I must miss
>     > something , Thanks for more clue
>     >
>     >
>     > wei
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Edward A. Lee wrote:
>     >
>     > > At 03:35 PM 3/27/2006, Wei Lu wrote:
>     > >
>     > > >Hi group
>     > > >         I am trying writing a speicfic actor for kepler, But to
>     > > >configure this actor, I need to run a special GUI frame to help user t
>    o
>     > > >set  up one parameter, which is too complicate to write in text. I won
>    der
>     > > >if I can open the frame during the configuration time? (like the File
>     > > >Brower button/dialog provided in current kepler system), If so, how to
>     > > >make it? (in the dervided Actor class or else?) , Many thanks for clue
>     me
>     > > >in.
>     > > >
>     > > >best
>     > > >
>     > > >Wei Lu
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Sure... The PythonScript actor does this.
>     > > It contains an attribute that is an instance of
>     > > ptolemy.vergil.toolbox.TextEditorConfigureFactory.
>     > > If you look at that class, you can see how it works, I think...
>     > >
>     > > Edward
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > ------------
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>     > >
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