Adding masks to pathview to improve user experience

[kwmcbride]

I’ve started to work on updating pathview to be more user friendly. I’ve moved the instance name to below the block, similar to what is seen in Simulink. I’ve made this instance name editable so that it’s easier to figure out what the block is for without clicking on it.

I’ve started to work on adding “masks” for blocks. This means that a file can be edited to describe the block behavior. This is at an early stage and it will need to be simplified.

The constant blocks show the specified values, and the power blocks show x raised to the exponent. The following model for the area of a circle shows this early implementation.

This helps the generated code as well, since the instance names are carried over into the code.

[kwmcbride]

Never mind this! I need to think about how this impacts the naming of the blocks via the title in the parameter window.