Re: Protop questions

From: Tom Bascom

Date: 3 Jun 2005

I think that the tool that you want is util/vstmon.p.

Comment out the call to "newlogdata()" if you just want the text file.

Phil Freed wrote:

> At 01:12 PM 6/3/2005, Tom Bascom wrote:
>
>> Phil Freed wrote:
>>
>>> 1)  This is the command specified in the Protop documentation for 
>>> running Protop in batch:
>>>
>>>    mbpro sports -p batch-chui.p -param "i;10|d;UIO" -Bt 1024 > 
>>> ProTop.UIO
>>>
>> The bad news -- batch functionality is broken.
>>
>> The good news -- I have something better coming.
>
>
> I was going to see if it made sense to use Protop as an Orca input, 
> instead of collecting the VSTs myself.  I'm of two minds about this.
>
> 1)  I like raw data, and the ability to combine it myself.  Certainly, 
> it's easy to go through the VSTs and accumulate the data -- once you 
> understand them well enough to decide what to collect and how to label 
> it.
>
> 2)  On the other hand, a tie-in to Protop seems like a natural -- and 
> it will make it easy to maintain, since others will be working on 
> keeping Protop current.
>
> I'm inclined to go with option (3) -- both of the above.  Once the 
> visualization tool is in place, adding data sources is easy.  I know 
> you have the new-and-improved tool in the offing, and I didn't want to 
> bug you about that.  So I figured I'd just give Protop a try.....  I 
> guess I'll go back to option (2) for now.
>
>>> 2)  I can't actually get the display-choice parameter (-param 
>>> "d;xxxx") to work from the command-line.  I get a blank screen 
>>> unless I specified the default display ("d:Summary).  However, if I 
>>> press "d" and "GO", my display will come up.  Clearly there's 
>>> something in pick-curr-disp isn't happening in the non-interactive 
>>> case.  I've been tracing the code, but as long as I was writing in I 
>>> thought I'd go ahead and ask.
>>
>>
>> That's been previously reported.  I haven't tracked it down and fixed 
>> it yet.  If you figure it out be sure to let me know :-)
>
>
> Will do.
>
> Thanks!
>
>


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