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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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<!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>Block types (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_buildHand.html"><img src="b_prev.gif" border="0" align= "bottom" alt="Building pipelines by hand"></a> <a href= "lwb_addBlocks.html"><img src="b_next.gif" border="0" align= "bottom" alt="Adding blocks to the canvas"></a></td> </tr> </table> <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Block types</h1> <hr> <p> <p> Various types of elements can be present on a pipeline. Blocks can have different states: idle, ready, or executed. These are color coded as <table cellspacing="3" class="body" cellpadding="2" border="1"> <colgroup> <col width="10%"/> <col width="10%"/> <col width="10%"/> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#ADC8FF"> <p>idle</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#35A400"> <p>ready</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#CFBFFF"> <p>executed</p> </td> </tr> </table> The following table describes these elements: <p> <table cellspacing="0" class="body" cellpadding="2" border="1" width="80%"> <colgroup> <col width="20%"/> <col width="15%"/> <col width="15%"/> <col width="50%"/> </colgroup> <thead> <tr valign="top"> <th class="categorylist">Block</th> <th class="categorylist">Name</th> <th class="categorylist">Java Class</th> <th class="categorylist">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <!-- MBlock --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/mblock.png" alt="LTPDA Block" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>LTPDA Block</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MBlock</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block that represents a method of one of the LTPDA user classes. These blocks hold a parameter list (plist) which can be set in the parameter table. They can have any number of input and output ports that the underlying algorithm supports.</p> </td> </tr> <!-- MSubsystem --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/msubsystem.png" alt="MSubsystem Block" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>Subsystem Block</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MSubsystem</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block that represents a subsystem. This is a view of another pipeline that can be placed on a canvas.</p> </td> </tr> <!-- MATBlock --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/matblock.png" alt="MATBlock Block" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MATLAB Expression Block</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MATBlock</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block evaluates a MATLAB expression. The result is stored in the variable and can be passed to subsequent blocks.</p> </td> </tr> <!-- MConstant --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/mconstant.png" alt="MConstant Block" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MATLAB Constant Block</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MConstant</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block evaluates a MATLAB expression and stores the result in the MATLAB workspace with the given variable name. </p> </td> </tr> <!-- MAnnotation --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/mannotation.png" alt="MAnnotation Block" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>Annotation Block</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MAnnotation</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block containing editable text to allow for annotating pipelines. </p> </td> </tr> <!-- MTerminal input --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/input_terminal.png" alt="Input Terminal" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>Input Terminal</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MTerminal</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block which represents an input terminal to a subsystem. These blocks can only be placed on a subsystem canavas. </p> </td> </tr> <!-- MTerminal output --> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p><img src="images/output_terminal.png" alt="Output Terminal" border="3" width="250px"></p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>Output Terminal</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>MTerminal</p> </td> <td bgcolor="#f3f4f5"> <p>A block which represents an output terminal of a subsystem. 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