SORTIE-ND Developer Documentation

This manual assumes that you are familiar with the user manual (or at least willing to go look at it from time to time).

I encourage you, while reading this manual, to send me additions, clarifications, and suggestions.

• Installing the Code
• Software structure
  • Message passing
  • Model I/O
  • Parameter files (and how to hack them)
  • How a run progresses
  • Design philosophy
  • The SORTIE-ND user installation
• The C++ model core
  • Model architecture
  • Exception handling
  • DOS interface
  • Variable naming conventions
  • Behavior versioning
  • C++ code documentation
  • C++ test code documentation
• The Java GUI
  • Architecture and key classes
  • Exception handling
  • Windows
  • SORTIE help system
  • Java code documentation
• How to write a new behavior
  • Part 1: Design
  • Part 2: Preparing to code
  • Part 3: Writing code and testing
  • Part 4: GUI and user documentation
• Porting to another operating system
• Third-party plug-ins
• Special topic: How light calculations are performed