[kepler-dev] Adding actors to the workflow programmatically

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi R.P.,

If you have a model, then you can instantiate the actor into
the model with the constructor for the actor that takes a container.
However, you need to handle actor name duplication issues yourself.

The biggest problem is that undo/redo will not work, since undo/redo
uses ChangeRequests.

This also gets into configurations, effigies and tableaux.  See
the following classes ptolemy.actor.gui: Configuration, Effigy,
Tableau.

Ptolemy models can be described in MoML, Java and Tcl.  For examples
of models in Java, see the .java classes in ptolemy/domains/*/demo/*,
for example
sdf/demo/Butterfly/Butterfly.java
or
ct/demo/Helicopter/Helicopter.java

_Christopher

Edward writes:
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    When you drag an actor in, the outline of what happens is:
    
      actor = the selected actor in the library;
      String xml = actor.exportMoML();
      model = the composite actor being edited.
      MoMLChangeRequest request = new MoMLChangeRequest(..., xml, ...);
      model.requestChange(request);
    
    I.e., a MoML description of the actor to drop in is obtained,
    and a change request is used to insert that MoML into the model.
    
    Edward
    
    
    At 04:05 AM 1/10/2008, R.P.Mciver at cs.cardiff.ac.uk wrote:
    >Hi,
    >
    >I've been playing about with trying to add Actors to a workflow in a  
    >manner different to dragging them from the tree of those available,  
    >however I've not been having much luck!
    >
    >I was wondering if anyone could tell me what code is actually executed  
    >when the user drags an entity from the tree onto the workflow? And is  
    >there a simple "addEntity" command that could be used to add an actor  
    >to an existing workflow?
    >
    >Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
    >
    >Russell
    >
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