[topbraid-users] UISPIN to Ensemble Question

[Arthur Keen]

I am using the example chart from Holger's blog Is there an example of how to display the chart in ensemble?




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[Scott Henninger]

Hello, Arthur; Currently the best way to get UISPIN content to appear
in Ensemble is through a SPARQLMotion script that opens a window to
display the HTML generated by UISPIN. We are currently looking into
ways of embedding UISPIN in Ensemble and I'm sure we'll have more to
say on this soon.

For now, try the following:

- Create a SPARQLMotion script that imports your model

- Get the HTML generated for a UISPIN instance with ui:getUIHTML.
For example if you have an instance named xyz:DataFor2008-04-18, which
is an instance of a class with an instanceView, then bind ?text to
it's output:
LET (?text := ui:getUIHTML(xyz:DataFor2008-04-18))

- Pass ?text to a ReturnText module with the mime type set to "text/
html"

- Attach the script to a SPIN function so it can be called as a
script from Ensemble (see TBS FAQ#2, http://www.topquadrant.com/products/TBS_FAQ.html#TBS2)

When chosen from a script cog in Ensemble, the script will return the
HTML to Ensemble and open a browser window with the contents.

Let us know how that works and/or if there are further questions.
We'll keep you appraised on embedding UISPIN in Ensemble.

-- Scott

[Holger Knublauch]

On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Scott Henninger wrote:

> Hello, Arthur;
...

> LET (?text := ui:getUIHTML(xyz:DataFor2008-04-18))

To clarify, the function above isn't documented anywhere yet as I may want to change it in future versions. It's ready to use now however, and basically creates the HTML source code resulting from a UISPIN HTML rendering.

We will also have a new SM module sml:ReturnUISPINDocument that does all this more conveniently, for one of the next maintenance releases.

Holger

[Arthur Keen]

Thanks very much Holger and Scott!