Helper configurations

You will probably be working with a particular model over a period of time, testing it, modifying it and exploring its behaviour. Often, you will want to have the same displays each time you run a simulation. Simile enables you to save a particular configuration of helpers in a file, and re-load them on a subsequent occasion.

Helper configurations

You will probably be working with a particular model over a period of time, testing it, modifying it and exploring its behaviour. Often, you will want to have the same displays each time you run a simulation. Simile enables you to save a particular configuration of helpers in a file, and re-load them on a subsequent occasion.

Each configuration can contain one or more instances of one or more types of helper, each instance linked up to particular variables in the model. You can have several configurations for the same model. You can also use the same configuration for different models - perhaps slightly different versions of one model - so long as the variable names are the same. For this reason, configurations are stored in separate files, and not in the file used to save the model itself.

New configuration

Any existing helpers are closed and removed by selecting a new configuration. It is only necessary to name the configuration when saving it, in which case any suitable name and directory can be chosen in the usual way.

Save configuration

The procedure for saving configurations differs, depending on whether the single or multiple-window run time environment is selected.

• in the single-window run time environment, save configurations using the "Save configuration" item on the "File" menu; or
• in the multiple-windows run time environment, save configurations using the "Save" item in the "IOTools" menu.

Load configuration

The procedure for loading configurations differs, depending on whether the single or multiple-window run time environment is selected.

• in the single-window run time environment, load configurations using the "Load configuration" item on the "File" menu; or
• in the multiple-windows run time environment, load configurations using the "Load" item in the "IOTools" menu.

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