Thank you for all the answers! I will try the different solutions.
Best regards, Carl On 27 May 2015 at 00:42, Douglas Geiger <doug.gei...@bioradiation.net> wrote: > Scrolling back I see I missed a little bit of the earlier discussion - so > to elaborate a little: > > Simple 'merging of blocks' (i.e. I have several blocks connected together > in a particular way, and want to wrap that up to re-use in other places) is > what GNURadio refers to as a hierarchical block. The blocks are being > re-used (to avoid duplication of code, which all programmers learn to hate > the second time they copy and paste code and then have to go back and fix > bugs in both places), but not being modified: and their connections are > static. > > If you want to use the functionality of several blocks and not have a > static flowgraph (e.g. I want to access particular functions of particular > blocks, but in some dynamic fashion that is not easily rendered as a static > flowgraph), then you would want to do as Richard suggests: create your own > out-of-tree module with custom blocks. For what I would consider to be any > advanced functionality (i.e. application-specific function that is more > than just a custom flowgraph) this is going to be required. That said - > there is a fairly large set of things that you can do within the static > flowgraph framework - and you can certainly spend a long time developing > applications entirely within GRC before you need to go down the path of > creating custom blocks. Since the amount of things you will need to learn > at that point greatly increases, I suggest holding off until you know for > sure this is what you need. > > Doug > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Douglas Geiger < > doug.gei...@bioradiation.net> wrote: > >> GRC has had the ability to create a hierarchical blocks for a little >> while (I forget which release added that): if you select multiple blocks >> you can right-click, and select more to find the 'Create Hier' option. This >> is described on the wiki at: >> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioCompanion#Hierarchical-Blocks >> >> It is just creating another XML wrapper around the blocks to create the >> hier block (with pads to allow input/output). I think usability wise it is >> essentially equivalent to the Simulink 'merge blocks' function. >> >> Doug >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Richard Bell <richard.be...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> You can't do it the way you asked specifically. The GUI functionality of >>> GNU Radio compared to Simulink is very different. The hierarchical block >>> mentioned by Chris above is a way of putting several blocks together using >>> code to do the wrapping. You need to create a new block using gr_modtool >>> and wrap all the subblocks into this top block. It takes a lot more >>> experience to do then the few simulink clicks. If you're are not afraid of >>> that and plan on using gnuradio long term, it's worth learning how to do. >>> >>> Rich >>> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Chris Kuethe <chris.kue...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes. >>>> https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioCompanion#Hierarchical-Blocks >>>> >>>> You can also increase the canvas size in the top block options. >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Carl Olsson <carlolsson...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > I wonder if there is a similar feature in grc as in Simulink where >>>> one can >>>> > create a block from other blocks? (Select the blocks, right click and >>>> merge >>>> > into one) Or how do you do more complicated flow graphs containing >>>> many many >>>> > blocks? I am a beginner and I already have a hard time fitting in all >>>> the >>>> > blocks in the window of grc. >>>> > >>>> > Best regards, >>>> > >>>> > Carl >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>>> > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>>> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Doug Geiger >> doug.gei...@bioradiation.net >> > > > > -- > Doug Geiger > doug.gei...@bioradiation.net > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > >
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