The config-visualizer is a tool meant to help visualize and debug precice configuration xml files. This tool produces a dot file as output, which visualizes the various participants, communicators and meshes defined in the configuration file and the movement of data between them. This GUI offers an interactive way to quickly inspect, explore and study preCICE configuration files.

Install directly from PyPi using pipx or via pip:

pipx install precice-config-visualizer-gui

precice-config-visualizer-gui [CONFIG-FILE]

You can launch the GUI directly from the command line. Passing the path to a configuration file is optional. All further adjustments are made directly in the GUI.

Until existing tools provide an automatic way to integrate applications into the system, this has to be done manually.

For pipx users, run the following command which downloads this file

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications && wget -O ~/.local/share/applications/org.precice.configvisualizer.desktop https://gist.githubusercontent.com/fsimonis/a08c3771abf808b0534d658bcb563f90/raw/10717f5b2afbf2d3c05ecb9f5c7eeaae4bbe868a/org.precice.configvisualizer.desktop

You may have to logout and login for your desktop environment to detect the file. Now you can open XML files directly with the config-visualizer and see the application in your launcher.