Dinamica EGO script language and command line tool



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Alternatively, you may want to save the model in EGO format in EGO programming language. You can open an edit EGO script language on a text editor, (e.g. NotePad++ or Context). But still it is much easier to use the graphical interface. For example, the Amazon logging model (Merry et al, 2009) developed in Dinamica EGO has more than one thousand script lines, even a skilled programmer would take longer writing the script than by using the graphical interface. Both script formats (EGOML/XML, EGO) are 100% compatible, so users can take back and forth a model from the graphical interface to the text editor without losing any information. Advanced modelers may use this well structured and tractable programming language.

Open again the model “simulate_deforestation_from_1997_2000_30years_ahead.xml”. To make the model more intelligible on the text editor, you first need to name some key variables and then add comments to parts of the model. Let’s do this. Select the Edit Functor tool and click on the Categorical Map “23267_1997.ers”.

Write in the alias field “initial_landscape”, click on Calc Distance Map and write the alias “distance_to_deforested”. Now save the model in EGO format.

Open in a text editor, the model “simulate_deforestation_from_1997_2000_30years_ahead.ego”. The EGO script is as follows:

Now that you have learned a bit about programming with EGO script language, another resource available in Dinamica EGO is the Command Line Tool. Any model saved in Dinamica EGO, either EGOML/XML or EGO, can be run from the command prompt.

To run Dinamica EGO from the command line, simply run DinamicaConsoleX (where the X is the major versior number of the application – e.g. DinamicaConsole7) from a command prompt. DinamicaConsole utility is located in the Dinamica EGO installation folder. The parameters accepted by Dinamica Command Line Tool are:

Dinamica Command Line Option Option Description
-verifier <name> Set functor verifier.
-output <filename> Write an output file representing the input model script.
-log-level <level number> Set the maximum execution log level. UNCONDITIONAL=0, ERROR=1, WARNING=2, RESULT=3, INFO=4, INFO2=5, DEBUG=6, or DEBUG2=7.
-log-subsystem <level number> Set the execution log subsystem level. GENERAL=1, OPENCL=2, SCRIPT_READER_WRITER=4, FUNCTOR_SCHEDULER=8, FUNCTOR_DEPENDENCE_GRAPH=16, FUNCTOR_EXECUTION=32, FILESYSTEM=64, MAP_IO_HANDLER=128, FUNCTOR_COPY_ANALYSIS=256, and SYSTEM=256. To use more than one, use the sum of the number of the corresponding subsystems.
-predefined-seed Use a predefined value as the seed of the random number generators.
-processors <number> Override the number of logical processors that should be used. 0=use total number of processor cores instead.
-granularity <number> Override the default granularity value.
-dont-run Do not run the model script.
-propagate-exceptions Propagate top-level exceptions.
-beep Beep to indicate that the execution has completed.
-ask-to-close Wait a confirmation to close the window.
-disable-parallel-map-load Disable loading maps in parallel.
-disable-parallel-functors Disable parallel processing of functors.
-disable-parallel-steps Disable parallel processing of loop steps.
-memory-allocation-policy <code> Policy used to control memory allocation. PREFER_MEMORY=0, BALANCED=1, PREFER_DISK=2, MEMORY_ONLY=3 and AGGRESSIVE=4
-accelerators-policy <code> Policy used to select accelerator devices. NO_DEVICES=0, ALL_DEVICES=1, and USER_CONFIG=2
-disable-native-expressions Disable compilation of image expressions to native representation.
-metadata-profile <code> Type of the profile used to write file metadata. CUSTOM=0, CSR/UFMG_ptBR=1, and CSR/UFMG_en=2.
-map-metadata-template-filename <filename> Filename with the template used to to write map metadata. Assume the use of CUSTOM profile.
-map-metadata-file-extension <extension> File extension used to write map metadata. Assume the use of CUSTOM profile.
-write-semicolon-in-csv Write CSV files using semicolons as value separators.
-session-name <name> Create session with the given name to share data between Dinamica EGO and an external application.
-list-accelerators Show the available accelerator devices.
-list-functors Show the available functors.
-version Show version info.
-help Show this help.
TIP: another way to loosely couple other computer programs with Dinamica EGO is by means of functor Run External Process, available in the Control Tab. By using this functor, you will be able to make a call to an external program from within Dinamica, pass to this program intermediate results and feed its output back again into the Dinamica EGO model.




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