Running GUI

[librarianmage]

Hello,

I can't seem to figure out how to run the GUI. The code seems to be included in the source, but I haven't a clue on how to get it to start.

[Magnogen]

I've tried running the .exe in the release too, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Could it perhaps need the commandline?

[inkydragon]

This may be a naming confusion.

The GUI parameter is actually used to specify the width of the sidebar for rules in the output image.

Just modify your models.xml:

• <model name="Circuit" size="100" steps="1200"/>
  

• <model name="Circuit" size="100" steps="1200" gui="200"/>
  

---

Value of GUI and output image width

  │   GUI   │  size * pixelsize=4   │
  │◄───────►│◄─────────────────────►│
  │         │                       │

  ┌─────────┬───────────────────────┐
  │ Sidebar │                       │
  │ for     │                       │
  │ rules   │                       │
  │         │                       │
  │         │                       │
  │         │        Output         │
  │         │        image          │
  │         │                       │
  │         │                       │
  │         │                       │
  │         │                       │
  │         │                       │
  └─────────┴───────────────────────┘

MarkovJunior/source/Graphics.cs

Line 39 in 67c446e

int WIDTH = MARGIN + MX * pixelsize, HEIGHT = MY * pixelsize;

eg: <model name="Circuit" size="100" steps="1200" gui="200"/>

For output img:

• width = GUI + size*pixelsize = 200 + 100*4 = 600
• hight = size*pixelsize = 100*4 = 400

In fact models.xml supports specifying the height and width of images directly, see the code for more available parameters:

MarkovJunior/source/Program.cs

Lines 23 to 28 in 67c446e

	string name = xmodel.Get<string>("name");
	int linearSize = xmodel.Get("size", -1);
	int dimension = xmodel.Get("d", 2);
	int MX = xmodel.Get("length", linearSize);
	int MY = xmodel.Get("width", linearSize);
	int MZ = xmodel.Get("height", dimension == 2 ? 1 : linearSize);

[nonchip]

This may be a naming confusion.

agreed, if it's not an interface, it can't be a user interface. i'd call that more of a "state graph" or something.

[Magnogen]

Ahhh, alright. Thank you for the clarification

[gabrielelibardi]

Hi, I am running MJ on Ubuntu from the console with dotnet run --configuration Release MarkovJunior.csproj. It looks like it is running fine after a fix from here but it is not showing anything. My goal would be to see the program as it is being executed as in the gifs. I also tried to replace the line <model name="Circuit" size="100" steps="1200"/> to no avail. Is there anything really obvious I am missing? I am new to C#

[mxgmn]

@gabrielelibardi add gif="True" to this line:

<model name="Circuit" size="100" steps="1200" gui="300" gif="True"/>

[gabrielelibardi]

That works thanks!

[tigrouind]

So it's not a real-time app. It actually produces a gif

[mxgmn]

It produces animation frames that you can then convert into a gif.

[AlfredBerg]

I have been playing around a bit in a fork with rendering the pixels of the gifs with sfml in a window, this way there is no need to convert all the images to a gif every time a model has been modified.
Did this mostly just to make it easier for me to play around with Markov Junior and the code is very quickly hacked together and not intended to be merged, but thought I would share it in case somebody else finds it useful.
It can be found here: https://github.com/AlfredBerg/MarkovJunior
(it is not as laggy as the gif makes it look like)