[kepler-dev] Some quick questions

[Colin Enticott]

Thankyou Matt,

The icon thing was just a nicety I wanted to add.  The icon would have a
number that would show how many outstanding jobs there were (similar look to
the sequence to array actor in Ptolemy), but it is not important.

As for the system level options, I'll use config.xml, but might revisit that
at some stage.

I had ran a full clean after removing my changes to no avial.  Then I
noticed CVS update would freeze (I have never seen that with CVS before).
So I re-checkout and the problem has gone away.  Strange, and hopefully it
wont happen again.

I have many more questions but a lot to go on with and it's nearly home time
Thurday (here) before Easter.

Have a good Easter.
Colin

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Colin Enticott, Research Scientist, Ph: +61 03 9903 2215
Room H7.26, Level 7, Building H, Monash University Caulfield 3145, Australia


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kepler-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org [mailto:kepler-dev-
> bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Jones
> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 1:56 AM
> To: Colin Enticott
> Cc: Kepler-Dev
> Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Some quick questions
> 
> Colin --
> 
> To map an icon you need to add it to one of the icon mapping property
> files, either by LSID or classname or both:
>     uiSVGIconMappingsByClass.properties
>     uiSVGIconMappingsByLSID.properties
> 
> These are in configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler
> 
> In general you should choose one of the existing icons, which are
> categorized by functional groupings.  The older _iconDescription
> approach from Ptolemy is not used in Kepler.
> 
> There is no unified properties file for Kepler, but several others exist
> in that directory that might be of use to you for setting system level
> options -- we've used config.xml for most system level properties.
> 
> As far as your startup problem -- I'm not sure, but I suggest you clear
> your karlib by doing an ant full-clean before a full rebuild (including
> ant buildkarlib). Did you add an actor to the mix, and if so, have you
> tried a clean build without it to be sure its not something you added?
> 
> G'luck,
> 
> Matt
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Matthew B. Jones
> jones at nceas.ucsb.edu                Ph: 541-888-2581 ext. 287
> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> UC Santa Barbara
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> Colin Enticott wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a few (hopefully) quick questions.  I've just started developing
> in
> > Kepler after the recent visit by Ilkay Altintas and have successfully
> > created an actor for our project Nimrod using the NimrodJavaAPI
> interface.
> >
> > I was wondering how you set an icon for an actor?  I followed the
> tutorial
> > which suggests setting "_iconDescription", but I didn't have any
> success.
> > Doing a search on the wiki suggests that the icon system is/has
> changing?
> >
> > Is there a convention where to set system level options?  E.g. the
> > NimrodJavaAPI needs to know where Nimrod is installed.  Currently, I
> have
> > this information set in the Unix environment.  Ideally, this should be
> set
> > in the "system properties" in the Java environment, but I am not sure
> where
> > this can be set.  Is there a Kepler properties file somewhere?
> >
> > And finally, I recently did a cvs update on both Kepler and ptII and now
> > when I run kepler for the second time (not the first), I get this error
> > (looks like an error loading the cache):
> >      [java] Opening user preferences PtolemyPreferences.xml...
> [java]
> > KAR Library directories: [/remus/cme/kepler/kepler/kar/actors,
> > /remus/cme/kepler/kepler/kar/directors]     [java]
> > com.microstar.xml.XmlException: name expected (found " ") in [external
> > stream] at line 84 and column 11
> >      [java]     at ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser.error(MoMLParser.java:1006)
> > ...
> >
> > Kepler then runs without any components being displayed. (I can make the
> > whole error available if this error seems odd).  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Colin
> >
> > ---
> > Colin Enticott, Research Scientist, Ph: +61 03 9903 2215
> > Room H7.26, Level 7, Building H, Monash University Caulfield 3145,
> Australia
> >
> >
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