What Limeade Does

 

Limeade lets you run LiME interactively, quickly varying parameters and observing changes in performance. It is intended that you will create a directory in which you wish to run one or more interactive experiments and cd to that directory. Then, simply invoke Limeade by typing Limeade. You will be presented with the Limeade startup window which contains an animated Logo and a file path: the path to a LiME parameters file. An example of the startup window is shown in Figure 3.

The choose button may be used to invoke a file browser with which to select a LiME parameters file. The open button will open this file, which means it will read the file's contents and give you a GUI through which you can modify the file. There is a Save & Run option which lets you run LiME directly without leaving Limeade. In this fashion, you can quickly and easily modify the parameters and try different variations.

A warning, Limeade currently will show a default file name even if such a file does not exist, therefore you will want to copy a default parameter file from the LiME LIME_HOME directory to your working directory. Unfortunately, if you open an non-existing file the current version of Limeade just sits and does nothing. Future versions will hopefully at least give some warning that no file was found.