I am trying to follow the instructions in the manual under Building a View to get started with EJS by constructing FunctionPlotter. It seems as if this was supposed to work without defining variables; in fact the manual says "the variables have been autonomously created by the view". But I found that I just got pink in the boxes for the variables in the View if I didn't define them in the Model first. So, anyway, the output I get is just a straight line. I then want to compare my resulting version of FunctionPlotter (which fails) with the one that is supposedly in _examples/Manual/View in the Simulations directory. But I find that no such directory came with what I downloaded with EJS_4.3.7_140302.zip. So I am a bit lost. Any direction would be appreciated. Thanks. GBA
The EJS document is out of date. Although EJS 4 allowed variables to be defined on the fly in the View, EjsS 5 now requires that model (global) variables be defined and initialized in Var Tables. This change was made to standardize the API for Java and JavaScript View Elements and to reduce the possibility of programmer errors. Some models were initializing variables in the both the View and in a Var Table and this produced inconsistent results.
You can download the EjsS source code for the Function Plotter examples from ComPADRE.
