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Intro

Varda (Visual ARD Rapid Development Alloy) is a prototype design tool for ARD+ in Prolog.

Getting it

Just download a VARDA milestone file below.

Releases

M_0

Download varda-m_0.tar.gz.

News

  • 2008.2.29 VARDA goes GPLv3
  • 2008.1.28 tph+ard display and collapse.
  • 2008.1.26-7 preliminary HML export added, use 'axg.'

Quickstart

To run it you need:

  • required to run VARDA: SWI Prolog
  • needed to build visual models GraphViz
  • needed for automatic visualisation: ImageMagick and GNU Bash (Warning: under Unix, you need GNU bash as a default Bourne shell (/bin/sh) – this is not the case with Ubuntu!!! it ships dash, change it – just uninstall it) FIXME

GNU/Linux

To use it:

cd varda
./varda

You can load an example model from the cmdline:

./varda therm-model.pl

In Varda, try hlp.

While working in Varda you are in the pure SWI shell, just use Prolog :-)

If you want to load a model when you are in VARDA simply use:

?- [therm-model].

Models:

Windows

If you use Windows, you can still use VARDA, but automatic visualisation would not work (it requires a Unix-like environment). Just run SWI Prolog, and:

?- [varda].
?- [therm-model].

If you have Graphviz under Windows, you can generate pictures manually, e.g.:

?- sar_file('therm-ard.dot').
?- shi_file('therm-tph.dot').
?- gax.
?- sxt_file('therm-xtt.dot').

And then run Graphviz DOT:

dot -T png therm-ard.dot > therm-ard.png

Report bugs

Please report the bugs, suggestions to the CVStrac system.

Login:

  • access the system with the wiki user/pass
  • submit new Tickets anonymously
  • please leave your contact information, as well as other reference, e.g. MIW project ID

FAQ

ARD Design Levels

In ARD+ you can directly see anly the most detailed (last level). If you want to see previous levels, you can either:

  • comment out parts of the model
  • hic to previous levels in VARDA

If you want to manually collapse the history, and display the ARD and TPH, use: ard_hist_collapse insteand of hic and then sar and shi.

Devel

Patches and suggestions welcomed!

The development is not public.

Developers see hades

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