[kepler-dev] Building Actors

Edward A. Lee eal at eecs.berkeley.edu
Fri Oct 26 14:15:25 PDT 2007



Why do you have to build it?
In Ptolemy at least (I haven't tried in Kepler),
I just create a Java file, compile it (not entirely trivial
to get the classpath right, but the jar files are sufficient),
and instantiate it using the Graph->Instantiate Entity command.

You don't have compile Ptolemy to do this...

Edward

At 08:09 AM 10/26/2007, Kenneth Evans wrote:
>Hi,
> 
>After working on it several hours again last night, I still can’t build Kepler.  I’m not complaining.  It is as good a way to learn the program as any, and I am confident it will be fixed.
> 
>The problem is that I shouldn’t have to be building it.  While contributing as a developer may be feasible at some time, I only learned about Kepler last week and I am presently not sufficiently knowledgeable to contribute.  I would not like uniformed amateurs contributing to my projects, and I would not do that to others.
> 
>All I want to do is implement an actor.  I wrote one in about 15 min. (using the HelloWorld tutorial) two days ago.  I still can’t run it.
> 
>I am aware of a program, JAS3, that is developed at Stanford and is used by the high-energy physics community.  (You can Google it.)  This program has plug-ins, which are similar to actors in that they [may] consist of a relatively simple Java file.  They have a tree view with the plug-in on the left, similar to what is in Kepler.  However, in their GUI you can create, edit, and compile the Java program, and add it to the tree or modify it while in the tree.  (You can also use it from the tree, of course.)  This is actually not that hard to implement.
> 
>Perhaps I’ve missed something, but it seems very inconvenient to create and debug actors in Kepler.  If I were running an experiment using the Kepler workflow, I would like to be able to correct mistakes or change things deeper than the flow diagram on the fly during a run.
> 
>(I realize it may not be wise to be critical when you are an uninformed amateur, but hopefully this will be taken in the right spirit. ;-)
> 
>        -Ken
> 
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