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jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

I finally succeeded in getting something done in ClearWin+ Very Happy

Using our existing numerical code it was quick in setting up this window - (getting to this is another story). The example reads a huge amount of data and then do a two-dimensional interpolation to find the parameters at the given operating point.

The coding is much easier than Matlab and by far easier to get it to run on a client machine (should it be necessary). However, beating the graphics from Matlab will be difficult (I think).

This example might be very simple. It saves time and it is brilliant to have a single tool to convert/read and evaluate the data! Some of my colleagues wil get a stroke if I tell them this is all Fortran Smile

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JohnHorspool · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 270 Location: Gloucestershire UK

Jacques,

sparge · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 371

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:13 pm Post subject:

Come on, tell us how you got a printer icon along with the other 3 on the top right of the caption bar ....

Better still, add the mystical invocation:

1 24 default.manifest

to your resources, and it will look like 21st century (XP or post XP, that is the question) Windows!

Sparge: As far as the code actually written by jjgermis is concerned, isn't it all standard-conforming Fortran, even all the Clearwin+ bits? What happens with libraries and interfaces can be in any language, and since the days of FTN77 which had large parts of itself allegedly written in Fortran, the libraries and compiler code aren't Fortran anyway. Or do you have a different definition?

Isn't it possible that since Clearwin+ is just a (sophisticated?) wrapper for calls to the Windows system, it could conceivably be converted to work with just about anybody's Fortran? Before anyone replies, I don't want it that way.

Eddie

jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

The printer icon comes from our Hardcopy program. The top-window then automatically gets the icon. This is useful to make a screenshot for documentation.

Perhaps I should express myself in another way: Using FTN95 and ClearWin+ I have a single development environment - GUI and numerics.

How do I implement the 1 24 default.manifest in Plato?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:44 pm Post subject:

If it is the only resource then you can put it after the main program thus

RESOURCES
1 24 default.manifest

Otherwise add this as a new line to your existing resource script.

jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

When I tried this I get the following error:

PaulLaidler · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:53 am Post subject:

You will need a recent FTN95.

Alternatively you can put the line in a separate .rc file.
This can be referenced on the WINAPP line or compiled separately using SRC.exe.

sparge · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 371

jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

I got some excellent tipps in this thread to get my ClearWin+ enthusiasm going. Comparing to my (little) GUI experience from Matlab and VB the philosophy is slightly different - I would say. However, for my applications just the right thing. Reaching a level of willing to try things out I can live with the scattered bits and pieces in the documentation.

There is however a few things I cannot figure out: What is the best way to print the results. The manual way that I am used to is to write the results to a file; open it with Wordpad and print.

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Smib · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 22 Location: Melbourne

One way is o use a button to call a print function

jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

Thanks! This is really easy Very Happy

Instead of setting the unit equal to 7 I tried a variable (write(ou,*)) - would like to control wheter it goes to the screen or printer. Using the code below I found that ou in (1;2;5;6) will cause the data to be written to the screen instead of a file.

Question: Are these unit numbers (1;2;5;6) default (or rather reserved) for the screen?

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject:

If your output always has a physical meaning (e.g. I see you have "torque" and "bore diameter" which look physical to me) why not draw a picture of it, with dimensions, arrows etc. Then make optional output (a) graphical, (b) textual. Users tend to prefer (a) over (b).

After decades of sending printouts to a page printer, line printer or character-by-character printer or to a file, I now find the pictures more concise and easier to read, besides which, they create less waste. Even if you have to print a picture, the total number of pages to print and store should be less.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Eddie

jjgermis · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 404 Location: Nürnberg, Germany

Eddie, I agree with the idea of a picture. However, since I am at the beginning of exploring the possibilities ClearWin+ has to offer it will take another while Very Happy

Another advantage of a picture is that one has a visual test of e.g. the machine dimensions (in our case). Often this leads to much quicker results than by evaluating the "text numbers".

In a previous thread I got some very useful tipps how to handle pictures! However, handles in ClearWin+ are a still a black box to me.

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:12 pm Post subject:

Back in June 2009 I started a thread called "When is a handle not a handle", to which Paul added some useful notes. (And I put it in Suggestions accidentally). Sometimes you give a handle, sometimes you get a handle. To know which, you have to read FTN95.CHM VERY carefully!

Eddie