Here is a complete and full example of use for Colimate. It is based upon an Microscopy Image Processing Package developed by this same group under the name Xmipp. Here is a snapshot of the menu generated for it.

At this level we will study the general structure of a Colimate application. In general, all Colimate applications have got a main module which is in charge of creting all menus, establishing links to all programs and defining general and common things. Then each program has to define its own structure (command lines, parameters, ...) and eventually its own menu.

To try this example just type

    # Compile the colimate Xmipp menu
    cd NewXmipp/Applications/Menus
    colimate_cc -i xmipp.mnu -o symbol_table

    # Show the menu and operate
    cd <any directory you like>
    colimate    -i NewXmipp/Applications/Menus/symbol_table -title "Xmipp package"

On this example we will see different "difficult" aspects of the Colimate program
 

• Colimate main module
• Sharing menus
• Working with optional arguments
• Working with several command lines
• Sharing Colimate modules
• Hiding variables
• Manual exclusions

The source code is open and you can have a look at any file you like by exploring the file structure.