Pamela user guide
Documentation of pamela exists to date only on French (as a wiki, but I am almost its only contributor). This version is here.
the main (pamelaX11) module
This module is the master window of the pamela platform.
When called without any argument, it simply creates the master windows as a vertical stack of push-buttons on the top right corner of the screen, and then waits for user actions.
It can also be called with a filename argument, the filename is taken as the name of a batch file which is executed immediately.
It can also be called with the argument -sane (to reset an erroneous environment),
with a -version to print a version number (release date) and ask the slave applications to do the same on all used host computers (in order to check code consistency in network based installations)
with a -help options, it prints an short user guide (in French) in the standard and error outputs.
All the user commands but the batch related ones are output to the error output, thus allowing to create a sample batch file by redirecting the standard output to a file.
In interactive and batch mode, the windows contains a pamela logo (program name with the lipstick print), a copyright statement and 14 pushbuttons.
A mouse clic on the logo displays a pretty presentation slide (just clic on it to close).
A mouse clic on the copyright statements give a list of (not necessarly cooperative) contributors to the firmwave.
This window can be resized from the window manager (with the surounding window handles) and also from the keyboard by typing a number of pushbuttons vertical columns (1 to 9), or
by typing h (for horizontal) or v (for vertical) to maximise window.
Typing u (for user) displays the list of opened application windows.
All slave application are pinged, non responding ones are listed (as non responding or running, depending of the known state).
This operation also detects destroyed applicaton windows (due to program crash, server or network disconnexion) and may be used for actualisation of the push-buttons state.
Clicking on a push-button launches the corresponding application (except for the ``lancer batch'' and ``configurer plateforme'' buttons used for launching batches and configuration of the pamelaX11 program).
In case the application may run on several host computers, using the left or centre mouse button let the program choose the processor (but all the computer set must be available for the user alone for the allocation to work.
The right mouse button (or Ctrl key + left button combination) opens a small popup menu for chosing the host computer).
Note that some application (image or trajectory displays, SAR processors, Image conformers) may called several times, other windows are unique of their kind.
Platform configuration
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Batch commands
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