[kepler-dev] how to enable 'listen to actor' without GUI?

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Jianwu,
How I track these down is to search the ptII repository for the
menu string that corresponds with the functionality in which you
are interested.

To my knowledge, we don't currently support enabling 'listen to
actor' from the command line.

Instead of adding yet another command line argument, it might be worth
worth using Jacl to invoke Java commands.

$PTII/bin/ptjacl foo.tcl workflow.xml
would invoke foo.tcl which could then read in workflow.xml, set up
any listeners and then run the model.

For example, if foo.tcl contains:

   java::new ptolemy.moml.MoMLSimpleApplication $argv

Then
  $PTII/bin/ptjacl foo.tcl $PTII/ptolemy/actor/lib/test/auto/Ramp1.xml
will invoke the model.

It is not that difficult to take control of execution, if foo.tcl contained


set parser [java::new ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser]
set toplevel [java::cast ptolemy.actor.TypedCompositeActor [$parser parseFile $argv]]
set manager [java::new ptolemy.actor.Manager \
             [$toplevel workspace] "manager"]
$toplevel setManager $manager
$manager execute

then the model is parsed, a manager created and executed.

_Christopher

Jianwu Wang wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>    With Kepler GUI, we can use right-click item 'listen to actor' to get 
> the execution debug info of this actor. Now I have to run a workflow in 
> batch mode, e.g. kepler.sh -runwf -nogui -nocache workflow.xml. Do we 
> support the same function like 'listen to actor' when executing workflow 
> in batch mode? Do I need change some configuration item of 
> Kepler/Ptolemy configuration files to enable that? Thanks a lot!
> 

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