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- From: Ayla Khan <ayla@sci.utah.edu>
- To: Petar Petrov <pip010@gmail.com>
- Cc: scirun-users@sci.utah.edu
- Subject: [SCIRUN-USERS] Re: Re: Re: subnet questions
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:58:10 -0600
Thanks Petar! We're in the planning and prototyping stages, however when
we're ready to solicit the user community for suggestions and help, we'll be
sure to post to the list.
Ayla
On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Petar Petrov wrote:
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Hi guys,
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another Peter here. I remember someone on the mail, cant recall the
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name nor care to search sry!, acknowledging some effort to transit
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towards Qt! Im for the idea and will gladly contribute. Have some exp
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with VTK/QT application all written in pure python!
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So i have some background + a SCIuser for more than an year.
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Cheers,
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Petar
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Burak Erem <berem@ece.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Peter,
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> Unfortunately, in the current version of SCIRun, subnets do not work as
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> intended (i.e. as reusable user-created functional blocks). In the Windows
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> version, there are known bugs even beyond what you're experiencing in Mac
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> OSX. SCIRun is transitioning to a more modern user interface and the plan
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> is, by the end of that process, to make subnets work in a more
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> user-friendly
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> and intuitive way.
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> All of that said, subnets still "work"... in the following sense: you can
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> select a subset of the modules in a network, right-click on one of them,
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> and
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> choose to create a subnet from the selected set. If you save the network in
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> that state, it will keep the subnet in the larger network. In addition, you
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> can save the subnet as its own network file.
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> When you want to insert a subnet into a network, one would expect there to
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> be an "Insert as Subnet..." option under the "File" menu that does this,
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> but
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> there isn't. Instead, one has to use "Insert..." to insert the saved
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> subnet's contents into the current network. For organizational purposes,
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> you
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> can group these newly inserted modules as a subnet again, repeating the
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> process of inserting and grouping for every copy of the subnet you need.
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> This is awkward, admittedly, but may still be of some use. If you let us
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> know how you plan to use subnets, or would plan to use subnets if they
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> worked as desired, then we could try to take this into consideration when
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> the developers in charge of the user interface transition are fixing the
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> relevant functionality.
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> Regards,
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> Burak Erem
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Peter Johnston
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> <p.johnston@griffith.edu.au>
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> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I just created a subnet in SCIRun (version 4.4 under macos 10.7),
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>> which
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>> was automatically placed in my ~/SCIRun/Subnets directory. I take it from
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>> reading the
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>> manuals that this subnet should now be available to place into another
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>> network
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>> under the subnets menu item in the network editor - but it isn't. I have
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>> restarted
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>> SCIRun, but this changes nothing. Am I missing something? Should I have a
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>> particular environment variable set in .scirunrc? I do have the following
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>> set:
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>> SCIRUN_NET_DIR=/Users/peter/SCIRun/Subnets
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>> but does not seem to help.
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>> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Peter.
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>> --
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>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
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>> Assoc. Prof. Peter Johnston
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>> Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics Phone (07) 3735 7748
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>> School of Biomolecular and Physical Science Fax (07) 3735 7773
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>> Griffith University
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>> Nathan
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>> Queensland 4111
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>> AUSTRALIA
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All the best,
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Petar Petrov
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http://ppetrov.net
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