[kepler-users] Are there any graphical INPUT actors in the community?
J. Marc Edwards
marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com
Tue Oct 4 13:47:07 PDT 2011
Matt:
OK...the BrowserUI looks like an interesting actor option for my
workflow. It would be nice to be able to "search" workflow *.kar files
to determine if a workflow used a specific actor, in this case, a
BrowserUI actor.
I'd like to take a look at some workflows that use this actor.
Do you also have a contact at SDSC with whom I may interact on this query?
Kind regards, Marc
J. Marc Edwards
Lead Architect - Semiconductor Design Portals
Nimbis Services, Inc.
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On 10/04/2011 02:10 PM, Matt Jones wrote:
> I believe that the folks at SDSC created the BrowserUI actor for just
> this purpose -- you write an HTML page containing the input questions
> you want, configure the BrowserUI to display it at the right point in
> the workflow, and then gather the output from the configured ports.
> Ilkay probably has examples of its use.
>
> It would nice to have a Java-based survey actor of some sort with an
> extensible dialog, but I don't think anyone has built one yet. I
> could imagine a nice utility that let you configure the output you
> want, and for each output configure a set of prompts and choose
> widgets for display, and then get back the output on the ports. This
> would be a more seamless version of what BrowserUI does without the
> external browser and without having to write HTML. Any takers who
> would want to create such an actor?
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, J. Marc Edwards
> <marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com
> <mailto:marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com>> wrote:
>
> Chris:
>
> What I am thinking of is this...
>
> I would like for a user to run a workflow "as is" with no
> modification. As the workflow begins execution, a graphical
> window pops up, prompting the user with a suite of fields that the
> user can then input text data into. The workflow can then process
> the user input, check it for validity, perhaps then re-prompt the
> user to correct their input. There would be options where the GUI
> can check for certain files and use that as input to the user
> fields or write out those files based upon the user input fields.
>
> I want to use this as a means for users to configure user
> parameters for external applications:
>
> ...have a set of default parameters.
> ...have the the user input their own customer parameters for
> the external application.
> ...write out a parameter configuration file that can be used
> on subsequent runs of the external application.
> ...would like to have 8-10 configuration files that could be
> selected from the GUI OR to run the workflow with a specific
> parameter configuration file.
>
> Regards, Marc
>
> J. Marc Edwards
> Lead Architect - Semiconductor Design Portals
> Nimbis Services, Inc.
> Skype: (919) 747-3775 <tel:%28919%29%20747-3775>
> Cell: (919) 345-1021 <tel:%28919%29%20345-1021>
> Fax: (919) 882-8602 <tel:%28919%29%20882-8602>
> marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com
> <mailto:marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com>
> www.nimbisservices.com <http://www.nimbisservices.com>
>
>
> On 10/04/2011 11:33 AM, Christopher Brooks wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>> In Kepler, the "Convert URL to Image" actor is
>> ptolemy.actor.lib.image.URLToImage:
>> "The ConvertURLToImage actor reads the URL or path of an image
>> and outputs the image in a form that can be used by other actors
>> (an image token)."
>>
>> Ptolemy includes interfaces to Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) and
>> Java Media Framework (JMF).
>> There was some work done with OpenCV, but it likely only present
>> in the Ptolemy tree.
>>
>> As an aside, the Plotter has a facility where the user can draw a
>> dataset. In theory, that facility could be
>> used in an actor to allow the user to draw the dataset and then
>> output the data.
>>
>> Ptolemy can also use the locations of actors in the window as
>> input. We use this with the wireless model of
>> computation to indicate how far apart wireless nodes are.
>>
>> What sort of graphical input did you have in mind?
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/4/11 8:25 AM, J. Marc Edwards wrote:
>>> All:
>>>
>>> I am curious if any graphical input actors that have been
>>> developed. I would like to have a graphical actor that I could
>>> customize for a variety of input from a workflow user.
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Marc
>>> --
>>>
>>> J. Marc Edwards
>>> Lead Architect - Semiconductor Design Portals
>>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
>>> Skype: (919) 747-3775 <tel:%28919%29%20747-3775>
>>> Cell: (919) 345-1021 <tel:%28919%29%20345-1021>
>>> Fax: (919) 882-8602 <tel:%28919%29%20882-8602>
>>> marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com
>>> <mailto:marc.edwards at nimbisservices.com>
>>> www.nimbisservices.com <http://www.nimbisservices.com>
>>>
>>>
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