Introduction to scripting

Setting up your scripting environment

Scripting offers a more powerful way to interact with OghmaNano. Rather than using the graphical user interface, you can use your favourite programming language to interact with OghmaNano. This gives you the option to drive simulations in a far more powerful way than can be done using the graphical interface alone. Below I give examples of using MATLAB and python to drive OghmaNano, but you can use any language you want which has a json reader/writer. Pearl and Java are two languages which spring to mind.

Before you begin scripting OghmaNano you need to tell windows where OghmaNano is installed, the default OghmaNano will be installed to C:\Program files x86 \OghmaNano, in there you will see in this directory there are two windows executables, one called oghma.exe, this is the graphical user interface, and a second .exe, called oghma_core.exe. You can run oghma_core.exe from the command line without oghma.exe. You simply need to navigate to a directory containing a sim.oghma folder and call oghma_core.exe, this can be done from the windows command line, matlab, python or any other scripting language. However, before you can do this on windows, you need to add C:\Program files x86 \OghmaNano to your windows path so that windows knows where OghmaNano is installed. An example of how to do this on a modern version of windows is given in the link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/sharepoint-2010/ee537574(v=office.14)

Every new version of windows seems to move the configuration options around, so you may have to find instructions for your version of windows.