Is there a (Tcl-)command I can use to send signals to waveform in SimVision?
Of course You can rightclick them and then select "Send to WaveForm Window", but to do that each time you start a simulation will be a pain.
In Modelsim you can easily use "add wave" in a dofile (tcl file), but strange if there would be no way to do this with ncsim...
When you have your waveform window set up the way you like (with all desired signals), you can go to File -> Save Command Script . This will save your window setup as a tcl file. You can look in there to see what the tcl commands are if you are interested in doing it manually.
To restore the waveform window next time, simply go to File -> Source Command Script and select the file you had saved previously.
Note: I'm using SimVision 12.10
a minimal working example I've come up with:
window new WaveWindow -name "Waveform"
waveform using {Waveform}
waveform add -signals tb_foo_u.module_bar_u.signal_xyz
You can type that in the SimVision console (if you're using irun in GUI mode). Tested in 15.20. Those are simulator-specific commands.
If you want it to be done automatically # irun startup (using .tcl file), examine the results of running commands from the other answer, then tailor it to your needs.
For the full, verbose description of waveform instruction, refer to the documentation provided with the simulator under SimVision Tcl Commands / waveform.
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I have a system that automatically creates and saves documents as html. For further storage they ought to be pdfs though.
I want to avoid having to do it manually so my preferred solution would be a small executable that I can call via command line, feed it with a source and output path (and ideally further parameters) and then let it do its magic. Something in concept like this:
exampleConverter.exe "C:\source\document1.html" "C:\convertedPDFs\document1.pdf"
No UI whatsoever, no human input, no popping up and closing console.
I looked through several options, but common problems I encountered were
the software not being free for commercial use
It just being a library of code, not a ready-to-go executable / code-base you just need to compile into one
The tool needing to get installed instead of being 'portable'
I'd like to avoid having to implement any modern libraries myself, partially for simple time concearns, partially because internally our code runs in a less than modern IE & VBS context so I for see compatibility problems.
Simply triggering a precompiled executable through a generic command line inerface that I can trigger from vbs seems like the perfect solution here.
Your Windows OS program code is almost there, why not reverse input and output (makes the task easier later), with a switch or two. you can embellish that with your for /? loop to run through the current working folder, just like any other program.
Your pseudo code
exampleConverter.exe --print-to-pdf="C:\convertedPDFs\document1.pdf" --headless "C:\source\document1.html"
Working Windows native code
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --print-to-pdf="%CD%\out\document1.pdf" --headless "%CD%\in\document1.html"
Other options are available
learn.microsoft.com suggest this working snippet to run edge with parameters
wscript vbsEdge.vbs
Dim shell
Set shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "msedge https://www.google.com --hide-scrollbars --content-shell-hide-toolbar"
So just combine the program methods. However, you need to sort out your own arguments.
For greater control then you need to step-up to heavier custom isations https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/23/bringing-automated-testing-to-microsoft-edge-through-webdriver/ etc.
In RStudio it is Ctrl+Enter, while in PyCharm it is Ctrl+backslash, but I can't find a similar shortcut for Octave (not so interested in Matlab). There has to be a way to run a single line of code on the editor without running the entire document. I know there is a method to run chunks of code, but this doesn't seem practical, either.
You need to select the code that you want to run first. The actual shortcut to then execute the selection is configurable (Edit > Preferences...) but defaults to F9.
Or you can right click on the editor which shows you the options and shortcut:
I'm running Windows 8. I have a file named "test.tcl".
If I open a shell, type "wish", then 2 windows open. In one of them, I can type Tcl code and open the file test.tcl. If I open this file, its code is executed.
If I double click on test.tcl to open the file with "Wish Application", then 1 blank window open, and nothing happens.
Do you know why please?
On Windows, Wish is built as a GUI-only application; it has no real standard output available. Tk fakes one for you though; just put this in your script to show the fake console:
console show
The fake console shows up by default when you launch without a script file, but launching with a script file doesn't show it (so your script file can implement an application, of course).
This can catch people out when they produce a lot of output on stdout. Tk may well be keeping it all faithfully just in case the code does console show later on, though it looks and smells a lot like a memory leak if you're not prepared for it…
I was having issues with the editor in octave and posted an question before: Octave output buffer completely messed up on OS X. How to fix?
The way how I fixed the question is using edit mode sync instead of the default async. However, I don't really understand what's the difference between async and sync here? And why when using async the keyboard was sending signals to both octave and the editor so that the output buffer gets messed up? If possible, can we use async mode for macbook? (Since everything works fine on my linux computer)
According to the help text of `edit()':
[...] async mode (editor is started in the background and Octave continues) or sync mode (Octave waits until the editor exits). [...] (see also "system").
It basically defines what happens after starting the other process (emacs in your case). Think how edit() was designed to be used. You are at the Octave prompt and use it to open a function file in your text editor. You make changes to the file while still using the Octave prompt. That's async mode.
However, your text editor does not a have a GUI. When you start emacs, you use it on the same terminal window where you called it from. Because you have it set to async, you end up with both emacs and Octave interactive in the same terminal. Set it to sync means that until you exit emacs, Octave is just waiting so it doesn't mess up with what's being displayed.
You can:
use a text editor with a GUI;
change your EDITOR command to open a new terminal, and start your CLI emacs there. For example, if you are using gnome-terminal, you can set it to gnome-terminal -e emacs %s;
change mode to sync.
I am trying to write a script that will parse a local file and upload its contents to a MySQL database. Right now, I am thinking that a batch script that runs a Perl script would work, but am not sure if this is the best method of accomplishing this.
In addition, I would like this script to run immediately when the data file is added to a certain directory. Is this possible in Windows?
Thoughts? Feedback? I'm fairly new to Perl and Windows batch scripts, so any guidance would be appreciated.
You can use Win32::ChangeNotify. Your script will be notified when a file is added to the target directory.
Checking a folder for newly created files can be implemented using the WMI functionality. Namely, you can create a Perl script that subscribes to the __InstanceCreationEvent WMI event that traces the creation of the CIM_DirectoryContainsFile class instances. Once that kind of event is fired, you know a new file has been added to the folder and can process it as you need.
These articles provide more information on the subject and contain VBScript code samples (hope it won't be hard for you to convert them to Perl):
How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?
WMI and File System Monitoring
The function you want is ReadDirectoryChangesW. A quick search for a perl wrapper yields this Win32::ReadDirectoryChanges module.
Your script would look something like this:
use Win32::ReadDirectoryChanges;
$rdc = new Win32::ReadDirectoryChanges(path => $path,
subtree => 1,
filter => $filter);
while(1) {
#results = $rdc->read_changes;
while (scalar #results) {
my ($action, $filename) = splice(#results, 0, 2);
... run script ...
}
}
You can easily achieve this in Perl using File::ChangeNotify. This module is to be found on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ChangeNotify/lib/File/ChangeNotify.pm
You can run the code as a daemon or as a service, make it watch one or more directories and then automatically execute some code (or start up a script) if some condition matches.
Best of all, it's cross-platform, so should you want to switch to a Linux machine or a Mac, it would still work.
It wouldn't be too hard to put together a small C# application that uses the FileSystemWatcher class to detect files being added to a folder and then spawn the required script. It would certainly use less CPU / system resources / hard disk bandwidth than polling the folder at regular intervals.
You need to consider what is a sufficient heuristic for determining "modified".
In increasing order of cost and accuracy:
file size (file content can still be changed as long as size is maintained)
file timestamp (If you aren't running ntpd time is not monotonic)
file sha1sum (bulletproof but expensive)
I would run ntpd, and then loop over the timestamps, and then compare the checksum if the timestamp changes. This can cover a lot of ground in little time.
These methods are not appropriate for a computer security application, they are for file management on a sane system.