[kepler-dev] Changing icons for composite actors

[Chad Berkley]

yep, you're probably right.  You'll have to find where it's adding that 
and add a check for if it already exists.

chad


Norbert Podhorszki wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> I have already tried to add an _svgIcon parameter to a composite in the 
> moml manually, but Kepler at loading it throws an exception saying that 
> I am trying to add an attribute which already exists. This should be 
> because Kepler is adding this attribute to each actor at loading the moml.
> 
> Norbert
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Chad Berkley wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>