Integrated Discrete Event Systems Software

This marks the end of my involvement with this project. Further development of this software is being pursued at qshare.queensu.ca/Users01/rudie/www/software.html

DOWNLOAD

1. IDES.zip

Download the zip package. It contains all necessary files. After the download is complete unzip the package to your C drive. Your installation should look similar to the image shown at right. For an alternate installation location, read the notes at the bottom of this page.

2. Run the program

To run the program, simply double-click the IDES shortuct . You should easily be able to make copies of this shortcut for your Start Menu, Desktop or TaskBar. This software has only been tested on WinXP and will not run on a non-windows system. You need different dlls (or the equivilant) for different systems.

Advanced Notes

is a windows shortcut file (.lnk) with C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe -Djava.library.path=C:\IDES\dlls -jar C:\IDES\IDES.jar as its target. This means it invokes javaw.exe with two parameters: -Djava.library.path=C:\IDES\dlls tells it where it should look for the required dll files, and -jar C:\IDES\IDES.jar tells it that the main class is in a jar file at the given location. If you wish to put the package elsewhere on your computer, you'll have to change these parameters.

TUTORIAL

In this document the words edge and transition are used interchangeably, as are the words node and state.

Java libraries take a long time to load. The first time you run the software, it may take 30 seconds to load. Also note, that the first node you draw, may take 5 seconds to appear. This is caused by loading libraries on demand.

Because of the screen capture process used in making these tutorials, some of the cursors in the images look skewed. Please excuse this.

Finally note that the BACK button on your browser will take you to the previous page. It will not simply go back one slide in the tutorial.


The Toolbars and Main Menu

(or just click on the items in the image)

      

Drawing a Graph

      

The Modify Tool

      

The Right-Click Popup Menus

      

Dealing With Labels

      

The Simple Tools

      

Trace