Automatic Solver Selection

README.md

@@ -7,3 +7,17 @@ For more information, please visit our [gh-pages](http://babelsberg.github.io/ba
 This work is licensed under [3-clause BSD](https://github.com/babelsberg/babelsberg-js/blob/master/LICENSE)
 
 Created under a grant from Hasso Plattner Institute <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/c/c9/Hpi_logo.png" alt="HPI Logo" width="50" height="50"/>
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+Setup for our dev team (Windows)
+=============
+* checkout this repository to ./babelsberg-js
+* download "the windows-2015-04-03 release zip." from https://github.com/LivelyKernel/LivelyKernel
+* unzip, open CMD, run ```start-lively-server.cmd```
+* after it installs packages, you have a working lively kernel at http://localhost:9001
+* navigate to LivelyKernel, this is now your root directory for lively
+* in LivelyKernel create users/
+* rename babelsberg-js to users/timfelgentreff
+* copy ohshima to users
+* open http://localhost:9001/users/timfelgentreff/babelsberg-js.html

babelsberg/cassowary_ext.js

@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ ClSimplexSolver.addMethods({
         var constraint = new Constraint(func, this);
         constraint.priority = priority;
         return constraint;
+    },
+    solverName: 'Cassowary',
+    supportsMethods: function() { return false; },
+    supportsSoftConstraints: function() { return true; },
+    supportsFiniteDomains: function() { return false; },
+    supportedDataTypes: function() {
+        // Cassowary does not support strings, but there are actively used scenarios
+        // where js-coercion from string to float is used - these cases would be blown
+        return ['number', 'string']; /* XXX: is this correct? */
     }
 });