Embedded annotations in components

[AtiyahElsheikh]

There are a high number of embedded graphical annotations in many components, see e.g. the Interfaces.Reactions package.

The goal is to move all graphical annotations to relevant components within the Icons package (say in a 1-to-1 mapping fashion)

It is not really wise to do it in a manual manner.

I see that I can do it with Java or Python since graphical annotations have a lot of common structures within the BioChem library (It seems they were added in automatic fashion).

However, my question:

Would it be straightforward to do it with the current set of available functions for *.mos script? or tricky and error-prone?

[sjoelund]

In OMEdit, you could simply copy-paste the icon layer from a class to a new Icons class, right? (And remove the components automatically added) Then remove the graphics from the original and extend from the icon?
Or duplicate the class and remove the components from the Icon.

[sjoelund]

I'm not sure how to script it in OpenModelica mos-scripts, but that might also be possible.

[AtiyahElsheikh]

In OMEdit, you could simply copy-paste the icon layer from a class to a new Icons class, right? (And remove the components automatically added) Then remove the graphics from the original and extend from the icon?

Yes I can do that. Due to a high number of available components (See, Reactions.* or Interfaces.Reactions.*), I am simply looking for a simpler way to do it.

[sjoelund]

I'm a bit busy with other things, but I think you could from mos-scripts (or OMPython):

// First get a list of classes to extract icons from and where to put them
copyClass(...);
// Delete extends possible in the API?
deleteComponent(x, BioChem.Icons.yyy); // loop in OMPython
// save this to file
// update the package.order?

And then have a list of what should extend from these icons; remove icons for these and extend from the corresponding icon. Call the diff API to make it not break.

But I don't have time to implement that :D

[AtiyahElsheikh]

Thanks

I will give it a trial some time this week. If I feel it is tedious, for the short-term I would rather focus for a while on GenKinetics, and do only the chages I need in BioChem. But on the long-term I guess this seems to be a doable task.