Instrument Methods grouped by Function
Damping Parts of an Instrument
Accessing the Internal Attributes of an Instrument
Graphically Placing Instruments
These methods allow the user to override Tao's default graphical placement scheme. The default scheme is not very intelligent in the current version and simply places each new instrument above the previous one (`above' meaning in the +ve y direction). TheplaceAt method
allows the position of the bottom left hand corner of the bounding
box surrounding the instrument to be set explicitly. The
placeAbove, placeBelow, placeRightOf
and placeLeftOf methods allow an instrument to be
placed relative to another instrument.
In the case of the methods which expect an additional argument
<offset>, this argument specifies an additional offset
measured in world coordinates from the reference instrument (the default
is to seperate each instrument by 5 units in world coordinates).
This is somtimes necessary to prevent the instrument visualisation
window from becoming too cluttered.
placeAt(<x, y>)
placeAbove(<instrument>)
placeBelow(<instrument>)
placeRightOf(<instrument>)
placeLeftOf(<instrument>)
placeAbove(<instrument>, <offset>)
placeBelow(<instrument>, <offset>)
placeRightOf(<instrument>, <offset>)
placeLeftOf(<instrument>, <offset>)
Instrument Methods grouped by Function
Damping Parts of an Instrument
Accessing the Internal Attributes of an Instrument