Hi Bertram, I think Man-Kit took the approach of dragging in attributes that contain solvers and analyzers that do the right thing.
I think a model can really have only one active director. One may drag in multiple directors, but only the last directory is active. _Christopher Bertram Ludaescher wrote: > Hi Chris (and Christopher): > > Just a philosophical question: wouldn't it be more a director-level > component that would deal with "global" properties of a workflow/model? In > my mind, actors are those selfish little guys who don't care about the rest > of the world: just what the read, compute, and what they write. Never mind > the predecessor, successor actors ... > (of course I understand that at the implementation level, they might "know" > much more) > > Having said that, attaching the code (or hooks for it) for semantic type > checking etc. to the actor itself also seems quite neat, as it allows a more > object-centric, localized control, where each actor can "say" how much it > "likes" the connections being made to/from it... > > interesting.. > > Bertram > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Christopher Brooks > <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> Take a look at some of the higher order component actors >> in ptolemy/actor/lib/hoc. >> >> ApplyFunction.java is a good place to start. >> MultiInstanceComposite is another one. >> >> See also ptolemy/domains/ddf/lib/ActorRecursion.java >> >> See also Edward's curriculum demo in Ptolemy II >> ptII/ptolemy/domains/curriculum/demo/Curriculum/Curriculum.xml >> >> Man-Kit Leung and people from Bosch are doing something somewhat >> similar with Properties, see the ptolemy/data/properties work. >> >> >> >> Chris Weed wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I would like to create an actor that when connected to other actors >>> will inspect the actors it is connected to and show the user the set >>> of actors that could fulfill this connection based on the Semantic >>> info. >>> The user would be able to select from this set, and the actor would be >>> internally created in my connector actor and connected to the ports. >>> Is there an example of an actor that does this internal construction >>> and connection of actor ports? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Kepler-users mailing list >>> Kepler-users at kepler-project.org >>> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users >>> >> -- >> Christopher Brooks (cxh at eecs berkeley edu) University of California >> CHESS Executive Director US Mail: 337 Cory Hall >> Programmer/Analyst CHESS/Ptolemy/Trust Berkeley, CA 94720-1774 >> ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2718 (Office: 545Q Cory) >> home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kepler-users mailing list >> Kepler-users at kepler-project.org >> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users >> > -- Christopher Brooks (cxh at eecs berkeley edu) University of California CHESS Executive Director US Mail: 337 Cory Hall Programmer/Analyst CHESS/Ptolemy/Trust Berkeley, CA 94720-1774 ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2718 (Office: 545Q Cory) home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480
