The DMI Editor dialog enables the user to edit the DMI name, type, control file path, executable file path and other configuration options.

To edit the DMI name, the user selects the Name field to edit the name in place:

When the edits are applied the new DMI name is validated; the possible errors are:

To edit the DMI type, the user selects the appropriate Type.

The Confirm Warnings check box controls whether you wish for the DMI to continue when warnings are generated. If Confirm Warnings is selected, the user is prompted to confirm any warning messages that appear; if not checked, the DMI continues after any warnings. Figure 2.2 is a sample dialog that appears during execution when the Confirm Warnings check box is selected.

The Record Invocations check box allows RiverWare to maintain information which chronicles input DMI invocations. With this information, values set by DMIs can be cleared on a per-invocation basis.

If a user wishes to clear all values that are input by a DMI, this box should be checked. If a user knows values set by a particular DMI won’t be cleared then it is not necessary to maintain information about the DMIs invocations and this box should remain unchecked. (The information occupies memory and could, over time, degrade performance.)

The check box is only enabled for input DMIs and the default is unchecked. See DMI Invocation Manager Dialog for details on clearing values set by an input DMI.

The Allow Spaces in File Paths allows the user to specify paths that have spaces. Without this box checked, the DMI would replace spaces in paths with ‘_’.

For an output DMI, the Limit Output to Run Range toggle specifies that output data should only be written for the run range (Start Timestep to Finish Timestep). Without this box checked, the DMI will write the entire series of data. This configuration is only available for output DMIs. See Time Range Specification for additional options.

The Line Ending menu allows the user to specify the type of line ending sequence to write for output DMIs. This option is useful when you are running RiverWare on one platform, e.g. Windows, but your output data processing utilities and scripts are on another platform, e.g. Solaris.

The choices are:

CR = carriage return, NL = newline

To edit the DMI control file, the user either:

The control file can contain environment variable references of the form:

VARIABLE is a letter followed by zero or more letters, digits or underscores. If the variable is followed by a letter, digit or underscore it must be “quoted” with () or {}. For example:

When the edits are applied the control file is validated; the possible errors are:

All other validation occurs when the DMI is invoked, including:

To edit the DMI executable file, the user either:

The executable file can contain environment variable references, the same as the control file.

All validation occurs when the DMI is invoked, including:

To edit the DMI user parameters the user specifies:

indicates an inactive parameter; indicates an active parameter; by default parameters are inactive:

The user toggles a parameter’s active state by selecting the Active cell; when a parameter is active its value is displayed in the Value cell.

The user edits a parameter value by clicking twice in the Value cell, activating a control appropriate for the parameter type.

For a Boolean parameter the control is a menu containing False and True.

For a Text parameter the control is a one line text editor. When the edits are applied the parameter’s value is validated; the possible errors are as follows:

For an Integer parameter the control is an unbounded integer spinner. For an Integer Range parameter the control is an integer spinner, bounded by the parameter’s minimum and maximum values.

For a List parameter the control is a menu containing the list items defined in the DMI Parameter dialog.

As the user edits the user parameters they are displayed as they will appear on the DMI executable’s command line:

The command line is not editable, but it can be horizontally scrolled, copied-and-pasted and dragged-and-dropped (to a Microsoft Word document, for example).