Chapter 2. Writing Stars for Simulation

• 2.1 Introduction

• 2.2 Adding stars dynamically to Ptolemy

• 2.3 The Ptolemy preprocessor language (ptlang)
  • 2.3.1 Invoking the preprocessor
  • 2.3.2 An example
  • 2.3.3 Items that appear in a defstar
    • name
    • domain
    • derivedfrom
    • descriptor
    • version
    • author
    • acknowledge
    • copyright
    • location
    • explanation
    • htmldoc
    • state
    • input, output, inout, inmulti, outmulti, inoutmulti
    • constructor
    • conscalls
    • destructor
    • setup
    • begin
    • go
    • wrapup
    • public, protected, private
    • ccinclude, hinclude
    • code
    • header
    • method
    • exectime
    • codeblock

• 2.4 Writing C++ code for stars
  • 2.4.1 The structure of a Ptolemy star
  • 2.4.2 Reading inputs and writing outputs
    • PortHoles and Particles
    • SDF PortHole parameters
    • Multiple PortHoles
    • Type conversion
  • 2.4.3 States
  • 2.4.4 Array States

• 2.5 Modifying PortHoles and States in Derived Classes

• 2.6 Programming examples

• 2.7 Preventing Memory Leaks in C++ Code

Authors: Joseph T. Buck
Soonhoi Ha
Edward A. Lee

Other Contributors: Most of the Ptolemy team