New work in Ptolemy 0.7.1

Further integrations of Tycho into Ptolemy. - Edward A. Lee, John Reekie, Cliff Cordiero, Kevin Chang, Christopher Hylands and many others.
The Tycho Release notes describe the changes to Tycho more completely, below are some highlights:
  • New package system - John Reekie, Christopher Hylands
  • Emacs-style search and file open - Cliff Cordeiro
  • HTTP, FTP, and mailto support - Kevin Chang, John Reekie
  • New documentation viewer (idoc) - Cliff Cordeiro
  • The Adaptive Computing Systems (ACS) Domain - James Lundblad
    The ACS domain uses different styles of stars than the rest of Ptolemy. ACS splits a star into a single interface (called a Corona), and one or more implementations, called Cores.
    See the ACS Documentation for more information.
    Mutable Universe Changes for DE - Jens Voigt, John Davis, II

    For a complete description, see Dynamic Higher Order Functions for DE

    There are two demos:
  • NonGraphical Demonstration of Dynamic Map Function
  • Graphical Demonstration of Dynamic Map Function
  • HOF fixes - Tom Lane
  • HOF stars now manipulate aliases correctly: in particular, when creating new connections into or out of a galaxy, individual alias portholes are created along with the new real portholes at the endpoint stars. This eliminates many pecularities that formerly occurred with HOF stars just inside or just outside a galaxy boundary. For example, a HOFNop just inside a galaxy boundary can now expand the galaxy's multiport to the right number of connections without help from a bus icon outside.
  • Delays on connections to HOF stars are also much better-behaved than before.
  • Reorganized HOFBase and HOFBaseHiOrdFn to make the difference in functionality more clear: HOFBase supports basic porthole-reconnection, HOFBaseHiOrdFn supports instantiation of replacement blocks.
  • Ptolemy interfaces to Matlab and Mathematica - Brian Evans, Guy Maor, and Wade Schwartzkopf
    We cannot ship binaries built with the current Matlab 5 interface, since they will not work on machines that do not have Matlab installed.
    Java version of pxgraph, Ptplot - Edward A. Lee, Christopher Hylands, Bicheng William Wu
    Note that the X11 sources for pxgraph are also included, see $PTOLEMY/src/pxgraph/README.txt
    Synchronous Reactive C Code Generation Domain - Frederic Boulanger, Supélec
    See the SRCGC Demos and SRCGC Stars palettes.
    Support for the EGCS C++ Compiler - Christopher Hylands
    See $PTOLEMY/doc/html/release.html for more information.
    Preliminary port to Windows NT - Christopher Hylands
    Ptolemy 0.7.1 runs under Windows NT using the Cygwin32 compiler and the Cygwin32 X11R6 binaries. To run pigi under NT, you will need a NT X server. For more information, see the Ptolemy under Windows NT page.


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