Quickstart
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This page is under construction. Another quick-start guide can be found in these slides.
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Installation (Eclipse)
Here we will install the AIBench SDK to develop AIBench applications by using Eclipse. You can use your own development environment, and if you want add the manual to this wiki.
Download SDK
Download the AIBench SDK from the downloads page
Decompress the SDK file in some folder in your local disk.
Create a new project
Create a new Java Project and click 'Next'
Give a name to the project and Select Create project from existing source
In the next window, first select Allow output folders for source folders (see 1 in the next figure) and then change the output folder of the default plugin (the sampleplugin) by double clicking in its Output Folder setting (see 2 in the next figure). Set the output folder to plugins_bin/sampleplugin
Click in 'Finish'. You should have a new project with this structure:
Prepare the launch configuration
Lets start the AIBench application with only the sample plugin. You will need a Run configuration. Go to the Eclipse menu Run->Run... and the Run Configuration dialog brings up.
Hit the New launch configuration (see 1 in the figure) icon and give a name to your configuration (see 2 in the figure). Make sure that your new project is the one in the Project field (see 3 in the figure). Next, in the Main tab, give type es.uvigo.ei.aibench.Launcher in the Main class field.
Go to the Arguments tab and type plugins_bin in the Program arguments field (see the next figure)
Go to the Classpath tab, and first remove the default classpath entry in the User entries (see 1 and 2 in the figure). Next, select again the empty User entries and hit Add jars...
Navigate into your project and look for the lib folder. Select all jars and hit 'OK'.
Thats all, you can hit 'Run' and see AIBench working!
Create your plugins
In order to develop your application functionality, you will need to create at least one plugin. NOTE: You can also modify the sampleplugin provided or create a new one.
Lets see how to create new plugins.
First go to your project properties by, for example, secondary click in your project root folder and hitting Properties.... In the Java build path section, choose Add a new folder
Create a new folder under the plugins_src called, in example, myplugin and hit 'OK'
You also need to configure the output folder of your new source folder. Edit it as you can see in the figure.
Give a name under plugins_bin, like plugins_bin/myplugin
Now you have finish. Finally, your plugin needs at least a plugin.xml file. You can start by copying the one in the sampleplugin, but remember to change its uid and name.
First elements
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First operation
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First datatype
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First view
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Customizing the user interface
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Changing the default template
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Adding custom input dialogs to operations
Under construction see Custom_Input_Dialogs
Complex datatypes
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