[kepler-dev] Building Actors

[ian.brown@hsbcib.com]

Ken, I'm glad to see you got this figured out over the weekend. Like you 
note with the search function, Kepler is a nicer UI than Ptolemy - you pay 
for the added niceties though from the increased build complexity. Once 
you have Ptolemy under your belt, it's easier to find a rainy Friday to 
play with the Kepler build.
The documentation is built using javadoc with a custom doclet in order to 
generate xml files. There is a make target that should do it - I cannot 
remember what it is off the top of my head (I use an ant file for the 
build and then use that as the basis of a netbeans project). I think you 
need make doc, or possible make exe - check the makefile for details.

As far as the Jython actor is concerned, Ptolemy calls it in all the usual 
places it would call an actor (OnFire, PreFire, PostFire etc - check the 
source for a full list). Because it is jython (which is Python compiled to 
Java bytecode) it has full access to all of your java classes. Thus, it 
can basically call everything that a java actor can. See the Jython 
documentation for more info.

Ian

"Kenneth Evans, Jr." <evans at aps.anl.gov> wrote on 27/10/2007 23:31:15:

> Ian,
> 
> OK, I found I can run Vergil from my Eclipse ptII project. 
> (Apparently only the kepler part doesn?t work.)
> 
> You may be right that it is easier to use.  I miss the Search 
> feature for Actors.
> 
> I got the PythonScript to work in Vergil.  I could use some more 
> documentation on what you can call in the script.  I didn?t need to 
> install Jython. The JAR is included already.
> 


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