KIELER Pragmatics 2014/10

• Official Project Website
• Built on Eclipse 4.3 "Kepler"

We are happy to provide release 2014/10 of the KIELER Pragmatics Project! KIELER Pragmatics is a framework for enhanced user interaction in graphical modeling that builds on the Eclipse platform. This document describes how to install the release and highlights the most exciting new features.

As a bonus, we are co-releasing our KLighD-based KIELER Ptolemy Browser.

• KIELER Pragmatics 2014/10
  • Installation
  • Release Notes
    • API Changes in 2014/10
    • New Features Included in 2014/10
    • Important Bugs Fixed in 2014/10
  • Quickstart
    • Diagram Layout
    • Viewing Ptolemy Models
  • Known Problems and Limitations
  • Bug Reports, Comments

Installation

KIELER Pragmatics 2014/10 is provided as a set of features, available to be added to your Eclipse installation via an update site. KIELER Pragmatics 2014/10 was tested on Eclipse 4.3 "Kepler", but may also be compatible with other versions of Eclipse.

• See the KIELER Downloads site for download details.
• KIELER Pragmatics requires an installed Java Runtime Environment >= version 1.5.
• The layout components of KIELER can make use of the layout algorithms provided by the Graphviz library. You may want to install that.

Also refer to the KIELER Downloads page to download the KIELER Ptolemy Browser and the KIELER Web Service.

Release Notes

If you're wondering where components have gone that were traditionally a part of KIELER, you might not know yet that the KIELER was split into two separate projects, KIELER Pragmatics and KIELER Semantics, which release pretty much independently.

API Changes in 2014/10

This is a summary of the API changes introduced with version 2014/10:

• KIELER Lightweight Diagrams
• KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout

New Features Included in 2014/10

Here's a few highlights of what's new in version 2014/10:

• KIELER Lightweight Diagrams
• KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout
• KIELER Layout Algorithms
• KGraph Text

Important Bugs Fixed in 2014/10

Among others, the following bugs were fixed in version 2014/10:

• KIELER Layout Algorithms
  • In KLay Layered, the polyline edge router could produce results where edges overlapped nodes.
  • In KLay Layered, the polyline edge router could produce weird results when more than one edge leaves a given port.

Quickstart

Diagram Layout

One of the core features of KIELER Pragmatics is the KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout (KIML). It provides the glue between diagram editors and layout algorithms. If you have installed layout support for GMF editors, you may want to try the following:

• Open a diagram using a GMF editor.
• Press the Layout button in the toolbar:
• Open the Layout View by clicking Window -> Show View -> Other... and choosing Layout from the KIELER Layout category.
• Change some of the values and press the Layout button again.

Viewing Ptolemy Models

If you have a Ptolemy installation, try the following:

• Save a Ptolemy model as a .moml file somewhere.

• Download and start our Ptolemy Model Browser.

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• Open your moml file.
• Double-click actors that have further models inside them. Also double-click modal model states that have refinements. Use the sidebar on the right to influence how your model is displayed.

Known Problems and Limitations

• The Ptolemy Model Viewer can properly display only a limited set of actors. Other actors may look a lot different than they do in Ptolemy.
• Currently there is no full-blown user documentation integrated. See our KIELER for more information.

Bug Reports, Comments

We're working hard to make the graphical modeling user experience as convenient as possible. However, bugs can still remain in the code and some things might not be as you would expect them. Please don't hesitate to send in bug reports or give other comments like feature requests.

Send bug reports to kieler@…, please. For news or general questions subscribe to the rt-kieler mailing list.