Re: [ptp-dev] ETFW classes and methods to query togoption settings

[Brian Watt <bwatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Greetings
>
> The ability to set environment variables through the xml-spec is
> already present, with syntax like:
>         <global name="SCORPEnvironment">
>               <envvar flag="FOO" value="BAR"/>
>       </global>
> (The environment variable FOO is set to the value BAR)
> Or though a ui element:
> <togoption label="Env Bar" optname="BAR" envvar="true">
>                       <optvalue type="text"/>
> </togoption>
> (envvar means the optname, BAR, will be set as the environment
> variable name and given the value put in the text box created in the UI)
>
> If I understand, you need to pass the same value as an environment
> variable for one step and a command line argument for another?

Restating it a bit... I need to query the value within the
first step's dataManager class, which is set into an environment
variable UI element defined in the middle step. Is this even possible?

> The
> easy, but ugly way is to have two UI elements, one for the variable
> and one for the argument and set them to the same value.  I will
> need to dig around a bit to find a cleaner way to handle it.
>
> Regards,
> Wyatt
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Brian Watt <bwatt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wyatt,
>
> I have a three step ETFW process.
>
> 1. The first step creates a temporary file as an "analyze" task.
> 2. The second sets some environment variables and runs an executable that
> produces several output files as an "execute" task.
> 3. The third step compares the timestamp of the temporary file to the
> output files and loads only the latest files into a view as an "analyze"
> task.
>
> Presently this all works if all of the files are created in the current
> working directory. However, I now need to specify an output directory as
an
> environment variable in the second task, and I need to access its value
in
> the first task when I create the temporary file. What ETFW classes and
> methods should I investigate to accomplish this?
>
> Brian Watt, IBM
>
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