Hi Jack, I see. We actually found problems when trying to script xBlocks within an xBlock, we got some weird block connection error, but I guess that is something solvable with some debugging. We'll evaluate if we stay with xBlock scripting or we switch back to standard simulink scripting.
Thanks for the info! Franco On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jack Hickish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Franco, > > I don't think there's any reason not to use xblocks. Someone can > correct me if I'm wrong. > > Several years ago there was a quest to move the whole casper library > to xblocks -- https://github.com/casper-astro/xblocks_devel/ -- but it > never seemed to get traction and the original libraries won over. I > suspect had the project been more aggressive about just replacing the > casper libraries it would have caught on. > > Cheers > Jack > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:34, Franco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear Casperites, > > > > I've recently been playing around with the creation of block libraries > and I found out about Xilinx's API for programmatic model creation > (xBlock). I find it particularly convenient because you don't have to > explicitly position the blocks, as the software does all the positioning > for you, and for what I tested the results are pretty nice. > > > > However when I checked in the CASPER library, only a few blocks are > created using xBlock, and moreover, some blocks where re-implemented from > xBlock to standard Matlab block scripting. > > > > So my question is: is there any reason why I should avoid using xBlock? > The only inconvenient I have had with it for now is that you have to > install some additional libraries in Linux to make it work, which I didn't > find it documented anywhere. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Franco Curotto > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "[email protected]" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CACBfcEmKHeDGr5ny5HH2ruqvHgYr-VbNbyyPjpJz5eR1C-JaRA%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAG1GKSn%2Bgy-f4HFRXYsNAoheHDJxYA_EzFcXyxUgwnM_STxWtA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CACBfcEmHFEofvwv%3DqP1bvtaEdsx2hm-RKtXAFtEQ5vQ2ahsL3A%40mail.gmail.com.
