[kepler-dev] Changing icons for composite actors

[Chad Berkley]

Hi Norbert,

I'm not really sure.  You can always add those attributes 
programatically or by editing the moml by hand.  I'm not sure what the 
effect will be though.  I think you'll just have to play around with it 
to see.  The only person that has a lot of experience with this is 
Matthew and he no longer works for us.  Personally, I've never messed 
with it.  Sorry I'm not more help.

chad

Norbert Podhorszki wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> I may have not described my question fully. I know how to define icons 
> for Kepler actors that either have lsids (saved in kar) or are java 
> classes. The composite actors in the CPES workflows are neither "actors 
> saved in kar" nor classes. They are simply ad-hoc subworkflows. That is, 
> they have no lsids either.
> 
> For example, in the workflow there are unique (not too complex) 
> composites to hide some specific, control related operations. They have 
> the default green box representation of the TypedCompositeActor. I would 
> like to show them as control actors (there is such an existing icon).
> 
> However, if this requires to save them as kars and 
> define/register/cvs-commit them, I may quickly decide it is not worth to 
> do it.
> 
> I can see in the Tree view of the workflow, that each component has an 
> _svgIcon and _iconDescription parameters, obviously created and filled 
> by Kepler when loading the moml file. Is there any way to influence this 
> process to insert that icon name what I want, not the one which is 
> assigned to TypedCompositeActor? Through a special _... parameter 
> inserted by hand in the moml for example :-) ?
> 
> Thanks
> Norbert
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chad Berkley wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I think you can.  You can actually assign the icon by LSID.  See 
>> the file 
>> configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/uiSVGIconMappingsByLSID.properties
>>
>> You can also assign them by class:
>> configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/uiSVGIconMappingsByClass.properties
>>
>> Note the config file format is something like this:
>> urn\:lsid\:kepler-project.org\:actor\:417\:1=data_process-c
>> where the icon name (on the right side of the '=' sign is a filename 
>> from the kepler/lib/images/svg directory with the ".svg" removed.
>>
>> chad
>