Re: Using DIA for block simulation

["Dan Bolser" <dmb mrc-dunn cam ac uk>]

Just out of interest have you heard of SMBL, the 'bio'-xml. I herd about an
integrated model building package implemented in smbl which can 'plug in' to a
simulation engine.

I am not sure if this is relevant to what you are trying to do.

Dan.

++ W. Borgert--
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:40:55PM -0200, Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:
>> use Dia as a sort of GUI. I don't require much of the GUI: in fact, all I want
>> is a graphical tool to connect the blocks. I'd then convert it to a format of my
>> own and simulate it --- pretty much what spice GUIs do.
>> 	Anyway, my question is: is it doable? What I need is someway to create
>> new blocks in the GUI. They need to have input and output nodes (connection
>> points), and the user must be able to select the number and name of these nodes.
>> The UML shapes are pretty close to what I need, except for the input/output
>> nodes.
>
> I suggest you to use the UML "component" object and pairs of
> "facet/receptacle" or "event source/event sink" to connect
> the components.  The number of connection points is only ten
> or so, but this is no problem: You can connect as many
> facets, receptacles, etc. to one connection point of a
> component as you like.  The dia file is an XML file (either
> compressed using gzip or not compressed) which can easily
> be parsed by stand-alone scripts.  I prefer Python for XML
> scripting and everything else, but YMMV.  There are a lot
> of scripts available, that produce "something" from dia
> files, see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/links.html:
> "Tools that generates something from Dia diagrams".  Note,
> that Facet/Recetacle/Event Source/Event Sink are only in the
> latest Dia release, not in older version.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org>
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