Route-Render-Writeimage is likely preferred, but it *is* possible to turn off the
display part of Image, run the net in script mode and write a file instead, just by telling Image it is running in the JavaDX environment. See http://opendx.watson.ibm.com/dx/mailArchives/mails.html/opendx-users.0005/msg00079.html Pete Wolfgang Braun wrote: > Hi, > I have a bug report and a question. First the bug report: When I create a net > using the visual program editor and I set the recordEnable flag of Image, it > seems not to get saved when I save the net. After reloading, the recordEnable > is again set to 0. After changing it manually in the .net-file using a text > editor, the visual program editor loads the net with the flag enabled in the > configuration list of Image. Is this an intended behavior? > > Now here's my problem: I am running numerous numerical simulations using a > modular bash script. The simulation machine (linux) runs without a screen > over the network. I log on to it (via ssh), start the simulation and log out. > The bash script then runs the simulation, processes the results and composes > everything including bitmap and vector graphs of the output into a section of > LaTeX code that gets appended to an electronic log. After TeXing this log, I > get an automatically created book that archives the simulations and their > results. Now I have created a net that reads in the simulation data, displays > them using Image and writes a tiff-file as output using recordEnable of > Image. I can run also run this using something like `dx -script > dataprocess.net' from the bash script. I have found no way so far, however, > to turn off the screen display of Image. If I log out befor the script > terminates, it cannot find an x-server and terminates. There seems to be no > way to do something like `dx -script dataprocess.net -display /dev/null'. > Also, the Image module does not seem to have an option to turn off the screen > display (which I can kind of understand, since that's what it was designed > for). For my application, it would be very nice if I had an easy and simple > way to use (almost) the same .net for both the interactive and quiet batch > processing of my data. This would allow me to e.g. interactively set new > camera values and then start another batch of several simulations, let's say > over the weekend. > What can I do? Am I missing something obvious? > Thanks in advance, > Wolfgang > -- > Dr. Wolfgang Braun > Paul-Drude Institute > for Solid State Electronics > Hausvogteiplatz 5-7 > D-10117 Berlin > > office: +49-(0)30-20377-366 > bessy: +49-(0)30-6392-4879 > mobile: +49-(0)170-2635-118 > fax : +49-(0)30-20377-201
