aloeUI Quick Start Guide

This page describes how to setup and run the aloeUI front-end and its basic commands. The guide assumes the reader knows basic ALOE usage.

The GUI is written in JAVA therefore it is expected to run on all platforms (only Linux has been tested)

Running the UI

The UI is distributed with the ALOE package in jar format (see QuickStartGuide). For those interested on getting sources check http://flexnets.upc.edu/svn/phalgui/

on your shell prompt, type:

java -jar aloeui/phalgui.jar

A sreen like this should show up:

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Setup

Click on "ALOE Management", you will see a menu with three items:

• Applications: Available waveforms in the active repository.
• Platforms: Platforms the UI can connect to.
• Panels: Statistics view panels.

Now we want to configure our first platform which will be the local platform. 1) Right-click on Platforms and select New Platform. 2) Enter any name, for example, "localPlatform". 3) Right-click on the new platform and select "Edit". A form will appear in the right window where you can select how to connect to the platform. For a default local connection, choose the following options.

Click on "Browse" near Output log path to select the path to the output.log file generated by ALOE (this is optional)

4) Click Save.

Now we have to start ALOE. Open a console shell, go to the aloe base directory and type (see ALOELinuxGuide):

sudo runph

Back to the GUI, right-click on the new platform and select "Connect". You should see the status bar displaying: "Connected".

Now we will configure the repository for the waveforms. 1) Right-click on the "Applications" top-level menu and select "Edit". 2) On the form appearing on the right side of the screen, click the "Browse" button and select the path to the repository directory. By default it should be under the aloe base directory extracted from the source tar. 3) Click on Save. You should see how new applications are available on the Applications menu on the left.

Running a Waveform

Now we can LOAD/INIT/RUN a waveform by selecting it on the left side and click on buttons on the top-left. When a waveform is selected, the set of its components are displayed. You can see its logs or view/report statistics.

Viewing/modifying Statistics

Viewing Execution Statistics