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| author | Daniele Nicolodi <nicolodi@science.unitn.it> |
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| date | Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:22:13 +0100 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/m-toolbox/html_help/help/ug/lwb_connectBlocks.html Wed Nov 23 19:22:13 2011 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> + +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta name="generator" content= + "HTML Tidy for Mac OS X (vers 1st December 2004), see www.w3.org"> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= + "text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + + <title>Connecting blocks (LTPDA Toolbox)</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="docstyle.css" type="text/css"> + <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.52.2"> + <meta name="description" content= + "Presents an overview of the features, system requirements, and starting the toolbox."> + </head> + +<body> + <a name="top_of_page" id="top_of_page"></a> + + <p style="font-size:1px;"> </p> + + <table class="nav" summary="Navigation aid" border="0" width= + "100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> + <tr> + <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td> + + <td valign="baseline" align="right"><a href= + "lwb_blockProps.html"><img src="b_prev.gif" border="0" align= + "bottom" alt="Setting block properties and parameters"></a> <a href= + "lwb_subsystems.html"><img src="b_next.gif" border="0" align= + "bottom" alt="Creating subsystems"></a></td> + </tr> + </table> + + <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Connecting blocks</h1> + <hr> + + <p> + <p> + Blocks of type "LTPDA Block" (MBlock), "Subsystem Block" (MSubsystem), "MATLAB Expression Block" (MATBlock), + "Terminal Block" (MTerminal) all have input ports or output ports, or both. +</p> +<p> + These ports are connected together with "pipes" (MPipe is the underlying java class). Output ports + can have more than one pipe connected; input ports can have only one pipe at a time. The binding object + between a port and pipe is a "node" (MNode is the underlying java class). Nodes are displayed as small + black circles. +</p> +<br> +<br> +<img src="images/block_connections.png" alt="Block Connections" border="3"> +<br> +<br> +</p> +<p> + To connect these blocks together, do one of the following: +</p> + <il> + <li> Click and drag from one port to another.</li> + <li> Click and drag from one output node to an input port.</li> + <li> Click and drag from one output port to a block. Connection is made to the first free input (if there is one).</li> + <li> Click and drag from one output node to a block. Connection is made to the first free input (if there is one).</li> + <li> Select a source block, then ctrl-left-click a destination block to join the two. There must be at least one free + input on the destination block. On the source block, the next free output is used, or the first output if no free + outputs are available.</li> + </il> + + + </p> + + <br> + <br> + <table class="nav" summary="Navigation aid" border="0" width= + "100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> + <tr valign="top"> + <td align="left" width="20"><a href="lwb_blockProps.html"><img src= + "b_prev.gif" border="0" align="bottom" alt= + "Setting block properties and parameters"></a> </td> + + <td align="left">Setting block properties and parameters</td> + + <td> </td> + + <td align="right">Creating subsystems</td> + + <td align="right" width="20"><a href= + "lwb_subsystems.html"><img src="b_next.gif" border="0" align= + "bottom" alt="Creating subsystems"></a></td> + </tr> + </table><br> + + <p class="copy">©LTP Team</p> +</body> +</html>