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26 <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td>
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36 <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Connecting blocks</h1>
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41 Blocks of type "LTPDA Block" (MBlock), "Subsystem Block" (MSubsystem), "MATLAB Expression Block" (MATBlock),
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42 "Terminal Block" (MTerminal) all have input ports or output ports, or both.
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45 These ports are connected together with "pipes" (MPipe is the underlying java class). Output ports
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46 can have more than one pipe connected; input ports can have only one pipe at a time. The binding object
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47 between a port and pipe is a "node" (MNode is the underlying java class). Nodes are displayed as small
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48 black circles.
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57 To connect these blocks together, do one of the following:
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59 <il>
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60 <li> Click and drag from one port to another.</li>
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61 <li> Click and drag from one output node to an input port.</li>
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62 <li> Click and drag from one output port to a block. Connection is made to the first free input (if there is one).</li>
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63 <li> Click and drag from one output node to a block. Connection is made to the first free input (if there is one).</li>
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64 <li> Select a source block, then ctrl-left-click a destination block to join the two. There must be at least one free
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65 input on the destination block. On the source block, the next free output is used, or the first output if no free
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66 outputs are available.</li>
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93 <p class="copy">©LTP Team</p>
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