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>User Interface -- Controlling the I/O Auxiliary</DIV
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>Description</H2
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>The synthetic target auxiliary is designed to support both extensions
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and user customization. Support for the desired devices is dynamically
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loaded, and each device can extend the user interface. For example it
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is possible for a device to add menu options, place new buttons on the
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toolbar, create its own sub-window within the overall layout, or even
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create entire new toplevel windows. These subwindows or toplevels
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could show graphs of activity such as interrupts or packets being
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transferred. They could also allow users to interact with the eCos
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application, for example by showing a number of buttons which will be
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mapped on to digital inputs in the eCos application. Different
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applications will have their own I/O requirements, changing the
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host-side support files that get loaded and that may modify the user
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interface. The I/O auxiliary also reads in user configuration scripts
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which can enhance the interface in the same way. Therefore the exact
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user interface will depend on the user and on the eCos application
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being run. However the overall layout is likely to remain the same.
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>The title bar identifies the window as belonging to an eCos synthetic
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target application and lists both the application name and its process
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id. The latter is especially useful if the application was started
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directly from a shell prompt and the user now wants to attach a gdb
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session. The window has a conventional menu bar with the usual
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entries, plus a toolbar with buttons for common operations such as cut
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and paste. Balloon help is supported.
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possibly surrounded by various sub-windows for various devices. For
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example there could be a row of emulated LED's above the text window,
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and monitors of ethernet traffic and interrupt activity on the right.
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At the bottom of the window is a status line, including a small
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animation that shows whether or not the eCos application is still
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running.
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>Usually there will be four menus on the menu bar:
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>File</SPAN
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saving the current contents of the central text window.
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>Save</SPAN
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contents of the text window. Any text that is hidden because of
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filters will not be written to the savefile. If there has been a
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previous <SPAN
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As</SPAN
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> operation then the existing savefile will be re-used,
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otherwise the user will be asked to select a suitable file.
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>Save As</SPAN
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> also saves just the currently
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visible contents but will always prompt the user for a filename.
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>Save All</SPAN
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contents of the text window, including any text that is currently
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hidden. It will always prompt for a new filename, to avoid confusion
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with partial savefiles.
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>Usually the eCos application will be run from inside gdb or from a
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shell prompt. Killing off the application while it is being debugged
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in a gdb session is not a good idea, it would be better to use gdb's
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own <B
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> command. Alternatively the eCos
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application itself can use the <TT
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> functionality. However it is
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possible to terminate the application from the I/O auxiliary using
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>Kill eCos</SPAN
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>. A clean shutdown will be
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attempted, but that can fail if the application is currently halted
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inside gdb or if it has crashed completely. As a last resort
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continue to run even after the eCos application has exited. This
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allows the user to examine the last few lines of output, and perhaps
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perform actions such as saving the output to a file. The
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auxiliary. Note that this behaviour can be changed with command line
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arguments <A
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>Exit</SPAN
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is still running then the I/O auxiliary will first attempt to
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terminate the application cleanly, and then exit.
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text manipulation: <SPAN
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>Cut</SPAN
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>. These all operate on the central text window. By
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default this window cannot be edited so the cut, paste and clear
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operations are disabled. If the user wants to edit the contents of the
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text window then the <SPAN
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miscellaneous preferences dialog. One of the preferences relates to
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online help: the I/O auxiliary does not currently have a built-in html
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viewer; instead it will execute an external browser of some sort. With
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the example settings shown, the I/O auxiliary will first attempt to
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interact with an existing mozilla session. If that fails it will try
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to run a new mozilla instance, or as a last result use the Gnome help
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viewer.
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> menu contains the <SPAN
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>System
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Filters</SPAN
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> entry, used to edit the settings for the current
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<A
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HREF="synth-gui.html#SYNTH-GUI-TEXT"
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>filters</A
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>.
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</P
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><DIV
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CLASS="INFORMALFIGURE"
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><A
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NAME="AEN18027"><P
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></P
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><DIV
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CLASS="MEDIAOBJECT"
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><P
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><IMG
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><P
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></P
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></DIV
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><P
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>The <SPAN
|
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CLASS="GUIMENU"
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>Help</SPAN
|
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> menu can be used to activate online help
|
| 396 |
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for eCos generally, for the synthetic target as a whole, and for
|
| 397 |
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specific devices supported by the generic target. The Preferences
|
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|
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dialog can be used to select the browser that will be used.
|
| 399 |
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</P
|
| 400 |
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><DIV
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CLASS="INFORMALFIGURE"
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><A
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NAME="AEN18033"><P
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><DIV
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><P
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><IMG
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SRC="menu_help.png"
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></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="NOTE"
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><BLOCKQUOTE
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CLASS="NOTE"
|
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><P
|
| 420 |
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><B
|
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>Note: </B
|
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>At the time of writing there is no well-defined toplevel index file
|
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|
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for all eCos documentation. Hence the relevant menu item is disabled.
|
| 424 |
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Documentation for the synthetic target and the supported devices
|
| 425 |
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is stored as part of the package itself so can usually be found fairly
|
| 426 |
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easily. It may be necessary to set the <TT
|
| 427 |
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CLASS="ENVAR"
|
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>ECOS_REPOSITORY</TT
|
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>
|
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environment variable.
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</P
|
| 432 |
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></BLOCKQUOTE
|
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></DIV
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></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="REFSECT1"
|
| 437 |
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><A
|
| 438 |
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|
NAME="SYNTH-GUI-TEXT"
|
| 439 |
|
|
></A
|
| 440 |
|
|
><H2
|
| 441 |
|
|
>The Main Text Window</H2
|
| 442 |
|
|
><P
|
| 443 |
|
|
>The central text window holds the console output from the eCos
|
| 444 |
|
|
application: the screen shot above shows DHCP initialization data from
|
| 445 |
|
|
the TCP/IP stack, and some output from the <TT
|
| 446 |
|
|
CLASS="FUNCTION"
|
| 447 |
|
|
>main</TT
|
| 448 |
|
|
>
|
| 449 |
|
|
thread at the bottom. Some devices can insert text of their own, for
|
| 450 |
|
|
example the ethernet device support can be configured to show details
|
| 451 |
|
|
of incoming and outgoing packets. Mixing the output from the eCos
|
| 452 |
|
|
application and the various devices can make it easier to understand
|
| 453 |
|
|
the order in which events occur.
|
| 454 |
|
|
</P
|
| 455 |
|
|
><P
|
| 456 |
|
|
>The appearance of text from different sources can be controlled by
|
| 457 |
|
|
means of filters, and it is also possible to hide some of the text.
|
| 458 |
|
|
For example, if tracing is enabled in the eCos configuration then the
|
| 459 |
|
|
trace output can be given its own colour scheme, making it stand out
|
| 460 |
|
|
from the rest of the output. In addition the trace output is generally
|
| 461 |
|
|
voluminous so it can be hidden by default, made visible only to find
|
| 462 |
|
|
out more about what was happening when a particular problem occurred.
|
| 463 |
|
|
Similarly the ethernet device support can output details of the
|
| 464 |
|
|
various packets being transferred, and using a different background
|
| 465 |
|
|
colour for this output again makes it easier to distinguish from
|
| 466 |
|
|
console output.
|
| 467 |
|
|
</P
|
| 468 |
|
|
><P
|
| 469 |
|
|
>The default appearance for most filters is controlled via the
|
| 470 |
|
|
<A
|
| 471 |
|
|
HREF="synth-running.html#SYNTH-RUNNING-TDF"
|
| 472 |
|
|
>target definition file</A
|
| 473 |
|
|
>. An
|
| 474 |
|
|
example entry might be:
|
| 475 |
|
|
</P
|
| 476 |
|
|
><TABLE
|
| 477 |
|
|
BORDER="5"
|
| 478 |
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
|
| 479 |
|
|
WIDTH="70%"
|
| 480 |
|
|
><TR
|
| 481 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 482 |
|
|
><PRE
|
| 483 |
|
|
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
|
| 484 |
|
|
> filter trace {^TRACE:.*} -foreground HotPink1 -hide 1</PRE
|
| 485 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 486 |
|
|
></TR
|
| 487 |
|
|
></TABLE
|
| 488 |
|
|
><P
|
| 489 |
|
|
>The various colours and the hide flag for each filter can be changed
|
| 490 |
|
|
at run-time, using the <SPAN
|
| 491 |
|
|
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
|
| 492 |
|
|
>System Filters</SPAN
|
| 493 |
|
|
> item
|
| 494 |
|
|
on the <SPAN
|
| 495 |
|
|
CLASS="GUIMENU"
|
| 496 |
|
|
>View</SPAN
|
| 497 |
|
|
> menu. This will bring up a dialog like
|
| 498 |
|
|
the following:
|
| 499 |
|
|
</P
|
| 500 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 501 |
|
|
CLASS="INFORMALFIGURE"
|
| 502 |
|
|
><A
|
| 503 |
|
|
NAME="AEN18051"><P
|
| 504 |
|
|
></P
|
| 505 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 506 |
|
|
CLASS="MEDIAOBJECT"
|
| 507 |
|
|
><P
|
| 508 |
|
|
><IMG
|
| 509 |
|
|
SRC="filters.png"
|
| 510 |
|
|
ALIGN="CENTER"></P
|
| 511 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 512 |
|
|
><P
|
| 513 |
|
|
></P
|
| 514 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 515 |
|
|
><P
|
| 516 |
|
|
>It should be noted that the text window is line-oriented, not
|
| 517 |
|
|
character-oriented. If an eCos application sends a partial line of
|
| 518 |
|
|
text then that will remain buffered until a newline character is
|
| 519 |
|
|
received, rather than being displayed immediately. This avoids
|
| 520 |
|
|
confusion when there is concurrent output from several sources.
|
| 521 |
|
|
</P
|
| 522 |
|
|
><P
|
| 523 |
|
|
>By default the text window is read-only. This means it will not allow
|
| 524 |
|
|
cut, paste and clear operations, and keyboard input will be ignored.
|
| 525 |
|
|
The <SPAN
|
| 526 |
|
|
CLASS="GUIMENU"
|
| 527 |
|
|
>Edit</SPAN
|
| 528 |
|
|
> menu has a checkbutton <SPAN
|
| 529 |
|
|
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
|
| 530 |
|
|
>Read
|
| 531 |
|
|
Only</SPAN
|
| 532 |
|
|
> which can be toggled to allow write operations. For
|
| 533 |
|
|
example, a user could type in a reminder of what was happening at this
|
| 534 |
|
|
time, or paste in part of a gdb session. Such keyboard input does not
|
| 535 |
|
|
get forwarded to the eCos application: if the latter requires keyboard
|
| 536 |
|
|
input then that should happen via a separate keyboard device.
|
| 537 |
|
|
</P
|
| 538 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 539 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 540 |
|
|
CLASS="REFSECT1"
|
| 541 |
|
|
><A
|
| 542 |
|
|
NAME="SYNTH-GUI-LAYOUT"
|
| 543 |
|
|
></A
|
| 544 |
|
|
><H2
|
| 545 |
|
|
>Positioning Optional Windows</H2
|
| 546 |
|
|
><P
|
| 547 |
|
|
>Some devices may create their own subwindows, for example to monitor
|
| 548 |
|
|
ethernet traffic or to provide additional I/O facilities such as
|
| 549 |
|
|
emulated LED's or buttons. Usually the target definition file can be
|
| 550 |
|
|
used to control the <A
|
| 551 |
|
|
HREF="synth-gui.html#SYNTH-GUI-LAYOUT"
|
| 552 |
|
|
>layout</A
|
| 553 |
|
|
> of
|
| 554 |
|
|
these windows. This requires an understanding of the overall layout of
|
| 555 |
|
|
the display.
|
| 556 |
|
|
</P
|
| 557 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 558 |
|
|
CLASS="INFORMALFIGURE"
|
| 559 |
|
|
><A
|
| 560 |
|
|
NAME="AEN18063"><P
|
| 561 |
|
|
></P
|
| 562 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 563 |
|
|
CLASS="MEDIAOBJECT"
|
| 564 |
|
|
><P
|
| 565 |
|
|
><IMG
|
| 566 |
|
|
SRC="layout.png"
|
| 567 |
|
|
ALIGN="CENTER"></P
|
| 568 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 569 |
|
|
><P
|
| 570 |
|
|
></P
|
| 571 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 572 |
|
|
><P
|
| 573 |
|
|
>Subwindows are generally packed in one of eight frames surrounding the
|
| 574 |
|
|
central text window: <TT
|
| 575 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 576 |
|
|
>.main.nw</TT
|
| 577 |
|
|
>,
|
| 578 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 579 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 580 |
|
|
>.main.n</TT
|
| 581 |
|
|
>, <TT
|
| 582 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 583 |
|
|
>.main.ne</TT
|
| 584 |
|
|
>,
|
| 585 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 586 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 587 |
|
|
>.main.w</TT
|
| 588 |
|
|
>, <TT
|
| 589 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 590 |
|
|
>.main.e</TT
|
| 591 |
|
|
>,
|
| 592 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 593 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 594 |
|
|
>.main.sw</TT
|
| 595 |
|
|
>, <TT
|
| 596 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 597 |
|
|
>.main.s</TT
|
| 598 |
|
|
>, and
|
| 599 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 600 |
|
|
CLASS="VARNAME"
|
| 601 |
|
|
>.main.se</TT
|
| 602 |
|
|
>. To position a row of LED's above the text
|
| 603 |
|
|
window and towards the left, a target definition file could contain an
|
| 604 |
|
|
entry such as:
|
| 605 |
|
|
</P
|
| 606 |
|
|
><TABLE
|
| 607 |
|
|
BORDER="5"
|
| 608 |
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
|
| 609 |
|
|
WIDTH="70%"
|
| 610 |
|
|
><TR
|
| 611 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 612 |
|
|
><PRE
|
| 613 |
|
|
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
|
| 614 |
|
|
>synth_device led {
|
| 615 |
|
|
pack -in .main.n -side left
|
| 616 |
|
|
…
|
| 617 |
|
|
}</PRE
|
| 618 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 619 |
|
|
></TR
|
| 620 |
|
|
></TABLE
|
| 621 |
|
|
><P
|
| 622 |
|
|
>Similarly, to put a traffic monitor window on the right of the text
|
| 623 |
|
|
window would involve something like:
|
| 624 |
|
|
</P
|
| 625 |
|
|
><TABLE
|
| 626 |
|
|
BORDER="5"
|
| 627 |
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
|
| 628 |
|
|
WIDTH="70%"
|
| 629 |
|
|
><TR
|
| 630 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 631 |
|
|
><PRE
|
| 632 |
|
|
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
|
| 633 |
|
|
> …
|
| 634 |
|
|
monitor_pack -in .main.e -side bottom
|
| 635 |
|
|
…</PRE
|
| 636 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 637 |
|
|
></TR
|
| 638 |
|
|
></TABLE
|
| 639 |
|
|
><P
|
| 640 |
|
|
>Often it will be sufficient to specify a container frame and one of
|
| 641 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 642 |
|
|
CLASS="CONSTANT"
|
| 643 |
|
|
>left</TT
|
| 644 |
|
|
>, <TT
|
| 645 |
|
|
CLASS="CONSTANT"
|
| 646 |
|
|
>right</TT
|
| 647 |
|
|
>,
|
| 648 |
|
|
<TT
|
| 649 |
|
|
CLASS="CONSTANT"
|
| 650 |
|
|
>top</TT
|
| 651 |
|
|
> or <TT
|
| 652 |
|
|
CLASS="CONSTANT"
|
| 653 |
|
|
>bottom</TT
|
| 654 |
|
|
>. Full control
|
| 655 |
|
|
over the positioning requires an understanding of Tcl/Tk and in
|
| 656 |
|
|
particular the packing algorithm, and an appropriate reference work
|
| 657 |
|
|
should be consulted.
|
| 658 |
|
|
</P
|
| 659 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 660 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 661 |
|
|
CLASS="REFSECT1"
|
| 662 |
|
|
><A
|
| 663 |
|
|
NAME="SYNTH-GUI-GLOBAL-CONFIG"
|
| 664 |
|
|
></A
|
| 665 |
|
|
><H2
|
| 666 |
|
|
>Global Settings</H2
|
| 667 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 668 |
|
|
CLASS="NOTE"
|
| 669 |
|
|
><BLOCKQUOTE
|
| 670 |
|
|
CLASS="NOTE"
|
| 671 |
|
|
><P
|
| 672 |
|
|
><B
|
| 673 |
|
|
>Note: </B
|
| 674 |
|
|
>This section still to be written - it should document the interaction
|
| 675 |
|
|
between X resources and ecosynth, and how users can control settings
|
| 676 |
|
|
such as the main foreground and background colours.
|
| 677 |
|
|
</P
|
| 678 |
|
|
></BLOCKQUOTE
|
| 679 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 680 |
|
|
></DIV
|
| 681 |
|
|
><DIV
|
| 682 |
|
|
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
|
| 683 |
|
|
><HR
|
| 684 |
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
| 685 |
|
|
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
|
| 686 |
|
|
SUMMARY="Footer navigation table"
|
| 687 |
|
|
WIDTH="100%"
|
| 688 |
|
|
BORDER="0"
|
| 689 |
|
|
CELLPADDING="0"
|
| 690 |
|
|
CELLSPACING="0"
|
| 691 |
|
|
><TR
|
| 692 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 693 |
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
| 694 |
|
|
ALIGN="left"
|
| 695 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 696 |
|
|
><A
|
| 697 |
|
|
HREF="synth-running.html"
|
| 698 |
|
|
ACCESSKEY="P"
|
| 699 |
|
|
>Prev</A
|
| 700 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 701 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 702 |
|
|
WIDTH="34%"
|
| 703 |
|
|
ALIGN="center"
|
| 704 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 705 |
|
|
><A
|
| 706 |
|
|
HREF="ecos-ref.html"
|
| 707 |
|
|
ACCESSKEY="H"
|
| 708 |
|
|
>Home</A
|
| 709 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 710 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 711 |
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
| 712 |
|
|
ALIGN="right"
|
| 713 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 714 |
|
|
><A
|
| 715 |
|
|
HREF="synth-console.html"
|
| 716 |
|
|
ACCESSKEY="N"
|
| 717 |
|
|
>Next</A
|
| 718 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 719 |
|
|
></TR
|
| 720 |
|
|
><TR
|
| 721 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 722 |
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
| 723 |
|
|
ALIGN="left"
|
| 724 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 725 |
|
|
>Running a Synthetic Target Application</TD
|
| 726 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 727 |
|
|
WIDTH="34%"
|
| 728 |
|
|
ALIGN="center"
|
| 729 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 730 |
|
|
><A
|
| 731 |
|
|
HREF="hal-synth-arch.html"
|
| 732 |
|
|
ACCESSKEY="U"
|
| 733 |
|
|
>Up</A
|
| 734 |
|
|
></TD
|
| 735 |
|
|
><TD
|
| 736 |
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
| 737 |
|
|
ALIGN="right"
|
| 738 |
|
|
VALIGN="top"
|
| 739 |
|
|
>The Console Device</TD
|
| 740 |
|
|
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