non-buffered vvp output, project-relative directory paths

src/com/elphel/vdt/ui/dialogs/DirListPromptDialog.java

@@ -37,13 +37,26 @@ import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
  */
 public class DirListPromptDialog extends ListPromptDialog {
 
-	public DirListPromptDialog( final Shell parentShell, String title) {
+	public DirListPromptDialog(
+			final Shell parentShell,
+			String title,
+			final String projectPath
+) {
 		super( parentShell
              , title
  			 , new IAddAction() {
 				 public String getNewValue() {
 					 DirectoryDialog dialog = new DirectoryDialog(parentShell);
-					 String selectedDir = dialog.open();
+					 String selectedDir = dialog.open();
+// try to replace prefix with ${"verilog_project_loc"}					 
+				    	if ((selectedDir!=null) && selectedDir.startsWith(projectPath)) {
+				        	if (selectedDir.equals(projectPath)){
+				        		System.out.println("DirListPromptDialog(): Path equals to project path = \""+selectedDir+"\", returning \"${verilog_project_path}\"");
+				        		return "${verilog_project_loc}";
+				        	}
+				    		return "${verilog_project_loc}"+selectedDir.substring(projectPath.length());
+				    	}
+					 
 					 return selectedDir;
 				 }
 			 }

src/com/elphel/vdt/ui/options/component/DirListComponent.java

@@ -26,9 +26,13 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package com.elphel.vdt.ui.options.component;
 
-import com.elphel.vdt.core.tools.params.Parameter;
+import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
+
+import com.elphel.vdt.core.tools.params.Parameter;
 import com.elphel.vdt.ui.dialogs.ListPromptDialog;
-import com.elphel.vdt.ui.dialogs.DirListPromptDialog;
+import com.elphel.vdt.ui.dialogs.DirListPromptDialog;
+import com.elphel.vdt.ui.variables.SelectedResourceManager;
+
 
 public class DirListComponent extends ListComponent {
 
@@ -36,9 +40,17 @@ public class DirListComponent extends ListComponent {
         super(param);
     }
     
-    protected ListPromptDialog createDialog() {
+    protected ListPromptDialog createDialog() {
+    	IProject project = SelectedResourceManager.getDefault().getSelectedProject();
+    	String projectPath=null;
+    	if (project!=null) {
+    		projectPath=project.getLocation().toString();
+    	}
+    	final String fProjectPath=projectPath;
+    	
         return new DirListPromptDialog( promptField.getVisibleNameField().getShell()
-                                      , "Directory list prompt" );
+                                      , "Directory list prompt",
+                                      fProjectPath);
     }
 
 }

tools/DesignMenu.xml

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
                       call="iverilog"/>
         </menu>
         <menu name="ISE" 
-              label="ISE Tools"
-              icon="xilinx.png">
+              label="Xilinx ISE Tools"
+              icon="ise_logo.png">
               <menu name="ISE_utils" 
                     label="ISE utilities"
                     icon="setup.png">
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
         </menu>
                           
         <menu name="Vivado" 
-              label="Vivado Tools"
+              label="Xilinx Vivado Tools"
               icon="vivado_logo.png">
                 <menu name="VivadoUtils" 
               	      label="Vivado utilities"
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
                           call="VivadoBitstream"/>
         </menu>
 		<menu name="Quartus"
-			label="Quartus tools"
+			label="Altera Quartus tools"
 			icon="quartus16x16.png">
 			<menuitem name="Quartus Server"
 				label="Start remote Quartus session"

tools/Verilog/IVerilog.xml

@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@
 			format="CopyValue" default="iverilog" readonly="false"
 			visible="true" />
 
+		<parameter id="VVP_prefix" label="VVP command prefix" type="String"
+			format="CopyValue" default="time stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0" omit="" readonly="false"
+			visible="true" />
+
 		<parameter id="VVP_Exe" label="VVP_Exe" type="Filename"
 			format="CopyValue" default="vvp" readonly="false"
 			visible="true" />
@@ -304,6 +308,7 @@
 				"Param_Exe"
 				"Param_Shell_Options"
 				"IVerilogOther"
+				"VVP_prefix"
 				"VVP_Exe"
 				"GtkWave_Exe"
 				"LogFile"
@@ -382,6 +387,7 @@
 					<!-- "time vvp -v" -->
 					"%Param_1"
 					"trap 'killall vvp; ' EXIT;"
+					"%VVP_prefix"
 					"%VVP_Exe -v"
 					"%Param_2"
 					"%OutFileFull"