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

[Jianwu Wang]

Hi Christopher,

    Thanks a lot for you help. The solution is more complex than I 
expected. I'll try to work it around.

Best wishes

Sincerely yours

Jianwu Wang
jianwu at sdsc.edu
http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/

Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
San Diego Supercomputer Center 
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, U.S.A. 



Christopher Brooks wrote:
> 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!
>>
>