Tornado

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Tornado Tools Reference
The GUI can be invoked from the command line on the host shell. The following
parameter is required and a verbose option is available:
targetServer
A living target server connected to the target to be used.
-V
Turn on verbose mode, which displays important steps of the interaction between
host and target.
NOTE: The vxColor demo is based on WTX and a TK-capable interpreter.
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LAUNCHING THE DEMO
(1) Switch on your target system (booting with VxWorks).
(2) Launch a target server for this target.
(3) Type the command line. For example, with a Motorola MVME162 board, assuming
you named your target server demo162, enter:
vxColor demo162
After executing the above steps, your screen should display a window named ‘Tornado
Graph Coloring Demo’. The window displays three buttons:
(1) a toggle that switches debug mode on or off
(2) a menu button that allows you to select a predefined graph to run the demo with
(3) a quit button
Debug mode should be turned on to debug the target side of the VxColor demonstration
with CrossWind. Turning on debug mode makes the stack size for the graph coloring
tasks bigger in order to accommodate the extra space needed by local variable when the
code is compiled with the debug option (-g) turned on. The header file of the demo
($WIND_BASE/target/src/demo/color/vxColor.h) contains defines for different target types
of the stack sizes of the controller and region tasks, in debug or normal mode. Normal
mode demands the least memory and should be used when running the demo on boards
with little memory capacity. You can adjust the stack size by editing the header file.
Whichever mode you select, remember that you can watch the stack usage with the
Tornado browser and that a stack overflow can lead to a severe system crash.
When a graph has been selected, the main window displays this graph as a set of colored
regions separated with border lines. The window displays a new set of buttons which are
contextual controls.
The following gives a description of the contextual controls:
START
Starts a coloring session.
COLOR EDIT
Menu for changing region colors:
- RANDOM randomly initializes each region’s color.
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