Annotations associated with physical units #22
Description
Physical units in BioChem are currently declared with annotations, e.g.
type Concentration= Real(quantity="Concentration", unit="mol/l", min=0)
annotation(Icon(coordinateSystem(extent={{-100,100},{100,-100}}, preserveAspectRatio=true, grid={10,10})),
Diagram(coordinateSystem(extent={{-100,100},{100,-100}}, preserveAspectRatio=true, grid={10,10})));
It resembles somehow Modelica.Icons.TypeReal:
type TypeReal "Icon for Real types"
extends Real;
annotation(Icon(coordinateSystem(preserveAspectRatio=false, extent={{-100,-100},{100,100}}), graphics={
Rectangle(
lineColor={160,160,164},
fillColor={160,160,164},
fillPattern=FillPattern.Solid,
extent={{-100.0,-100.0},{100.0,100.0}},
radius=25.0),
Text(
textColor={255,255,255},
extent={{-90.0,-50.0},{90.0,50.0}},
textString="R")}),Documentation(info="<html>
<p>
This icon is designed for a <strong>Real</strong> type.
</p>
</html>"));
end TypeReal;
I would rather prefer to get rid of the annotations and make use of TypeReal, something like that:
type Concentration = Modelica.Icons.TypeReal(final quantity="Concentration",final unit = "mol/l", min = 0)
" Concentration of a metabolite [mol/l]";
Questions:
- Is there any need to keep the old annotations,
- the preserveAspectRatio attribute of Icon? its value is true in BioChem and false in TypeReal
- the Diagram annotation?
- The Icon will appear with the string "R". Can annotations in subclasses get modified? so that the attribute textString in TypeReal get overwritten by the unit attribute of type Real?