Kepler

Oops, I meant to add that feature but forgot. I'll add it now. Thanks for finding it, Dan.

I fixed a bug where the documentation would not show if a value in the moml was null. This fix was in the PTII tree so if you want to see the bug fix, you have to update ptII.

Dan, can you provide more information on how you made an actor without the KeplerDocumentation Attribute? Could you give me a step-by-step on what you did so I can reproduce it? thanks.

Chad,
Creating and actor without the KeplerDocumentation Attribute is as simple as creating a new Java coded actor and adding to a workflow using the Tools/Instantiate Component menu item. I originally did this with the AscGridValue actor, but I think Kirsten has now added the documentation.

Another actor(s) that you can load is/are the Python actors (which are currently in the Kepler src but not in the the actor library. From Kepler, you can just open a Ptolemy moml file to instantiate the actors. Open $PTII/ptolemy/actror/lib/python/python.xml. This should create a workflow with 2 actors - PythonActor and PythonScript. These actors have no documentation information.

I am particulatrly interested in these actors because I am hoping to add them to Kepler with documentation. (I have been getting better acquainted with Python/Jython and think that adding such scripting actors to Kepler would be useful for a lot of users.)

Dan Higgins - 3 Mar 2008

This now works. You can click customize and even if there is no current documentation, a blank documentation window will show up. I also added a kepler specific error message to the "display documentation" action to tell the user that there is no documentation specified and that they can click the customize option to create some.

Original Bugzilla ID was 3169