Creator: Srirama Bhamidipati
Date: 17 June 2021
GAMA-TOUCHBAR is a BTT preset for GAMA. This preset helps GAMA users to quickly write code by adding GAML templates with the touch of a finger. The idea is to help beginners with GAML templates and advanced users tomodify it themselves or contribute to this project.
Please post issues to request for new features.
- To remove fear in beginners to remember all the required GAML code
- To help intermediate users to speed up writing code.
- To push developers to think in the direction of "touch friendly" design of GAMA.
- Apple laptops with a Touch Bar and running macOS
- BetterTouchTool (BTT) https://folivora.ai/
- GAMA installed https://gama-platform.github.io/
At the right top of this page, you will see a Releases section, you can download the latest release from there.
- Open BTT
- Presets> Import Presets
- Browse to the folder where you saved GAMA-TOUCHBAR.bttpreset, select and click OK
Mute and Esc button exist at all levels of the GAMA-TOUCHBAR, this is to help you mute your system volume in an urgent or unexpected situation without having to quit GAMA-TOUCHBAR; same for esc, if you wish to cancel any menu operations while using GAMA, esc acts as the default esc key on a keyboard.
At the top level (root level) you will see the bar as below. The left most blue set is for code navigation.
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If you want to search for occurences of a variable in a model, you can search in forward (:fast_forward: ) or backward (:rewind: ) direction.
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The magnifying glass (:mag: )is used for looking for a variable in the model outline.
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aA helps you refactor/rename a variable in the entire model and
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the anchor button (:anchor: ) looks for the declaration of a variable (object).
The quick syntax toolbar gives you access to all the basic templates you need to build a simple model. The orange buttons with two parallel lines || indicate that you have more options to explore, so touch them to see further options. In this bar you will find simple templates of:
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reflex
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species/ grid
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action (various forms of actions)
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loops (various forms of loops)
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experiment
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📈 series chart
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monitor
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parameter
This toolbar gives access to run your simulation. This has been deliberately made to mimic GAMA toolbar, therefore buttons are self-explanatory
This bar gives you access to many GAML templates or code blocks that are difficult to remember. These templates are now available at the touch of a finger.
This bar gives you access to the experiment templates
This bar gives you access to the chart templates. This is under development. A series chart is however available in the quick syntax bar.
