Chapter 2. The Interactive Graphical Interface
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Setup
2.10 Sounds
2.11 Preparing Lab Reports
2.11.1 Signal Plots
2.11.2 Printing Schematics
2.11.3 Importing a PostScript image
2.11.4 Importing an Image as a X bitmap (XBM)
2.12 Other useful information
2.12.1 Plotting signals and Fourier transforms
2.12.2 Moving objects
2.12.3 Copying objects
2.12.4 Labeling a design
2.12.5 Icon orientation
2.12.6 Finding the names of terminals
2.12.7 Multiple inputs and outputs
2.12.8 Using delays
2.12.9 Auto-forking
2.12.10 Dealing with errors
2.12.11 Copying and moving designs
Moving facets
2.12.12 Environment variables
2.12.13 Command-line options
2.13 X Resources
2.14 Tk options
2.2 Running the Ptolemy demos
2.2.1 Starting Ptolemy
2.2.2 Exploring the menus
2.2.3 Traversing the hierarchy
2.2.4 Running a Ptolemy application
2.2.5 Examining schematics more closely
2.2.6 Invoking on-line documentation for stars
2.2.7 More extensive exploration of the demos
2.2.8 What's new
2.3 Dialog boxes
2.3.1 Tk control panels
2.3.2 Athena widget dialog boxes
2.4 Parameters and states
2.4.1 A note on terminology
2.4.2 Changing or setting parameters
Passing parameters through the hierarchy
Parameter expressions
Complex-valued parameters
Fixed-point parameters
2.4.3 Reading Parameter Values From Files
2.4.4 Inserting Comments in Parameters
2.4.5 Using Tcl Expressions in Parameters
2.4.6 Using Matlab and Mathematica to Compute Parameters
2.4.7 Array parameters
2.4.8 String Parameters
2.5 Particle types
2.6 The oct design database and its editor, vem
2.7 Creating universes
2.7.1 Opening working windows
2.7.2 Some basic vem commands
2.7.3 Building an example
2.8 Using galaxies
2.8.1 Creating a galaxy
2.8.2 Using a galaxy
2.8.3 Galaxy and universe parameters
2.9 Editing Icons
Changing the number of terminals in galaxy icons
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