IBM Visualization Data Explorer Programmer's Reference

3.5 Module Builder: Overall Module Description

Use this section to specify the following information.

Name	The name of the module.
Category	The name of the tool category to which the module is to be assigned. This can be the name of an existing category or a name of your choosing. Click on Existing (at the right of the text field) for a list of existing categories. If you then click on one of the categories in the list, the category name is automatically inserted in the text field.
Description	A brief description of the module being defined. It appears in a Description of... box when the Description... button of the module's configuration dialog box is selected.
Number of inputs	The number of inputs to the module.
Number of outputs	The number of outputs from the module.
Module Type	The type of module: inboard, outboard, or runtime-loadable. Specify the type by activating the appropriate toggle button. The default is "inboard." Notes: Activating the outboard toggle button makes available two associated text fields (Executable Name and Outboard Host) and one toggle button (Persistent): Executable Name Specifies the name of the module executable. Outboard Host Specifies the name of the host machine on which the outboard module is to be run. This parameter defaults to "local host." Persistent Specifies that the outboard module is not be terminated after it produces output. For more information on outboard modules, see 11.5 , "Compiling, Linking, and Debugging an Outboard Module". Activating the runtime-loadable toggle button makes available the Executable Name text field. For more information, see 11.6 , "Compiling, Linking, and Debugging a Runtime-loadable Module".
Executable name	See Module Type above.
Outboard Host	See Module Type above.
Persistent	See Module Type above.
Asynchronous	The module may create data asynchronously, in response to events outside of Data Explorer. See 11.2 , "Asynchronous Modules".
Include File Name	The name of an include file to be inserted in the worker routine.

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