What is the Script Editor?

The Script Editor is a Java program for building and running SU scripts. It uses XML as the standard for saving scripts. XML, Extensible Markup Language, is an extension of HTML and is a popular standard for saving different types of information.

When you save a script in the script editor, it is automatically converted to XML, before being saved. XML is also used by bhpview to save viewing sessions, known as savesets.

The script editor was written for building and running scripts that consist of UNIX commands, Seismic UNIX commands, and BHP_SU commands. It also has the ability to split a large workflow into many parts for execution on multiple platforms via the LSF job scheduler.

The script editor can be run in one of two modes – restricted or unrestricted. In restricted mode, the user is allowed to modify only certain parameters in a workflow, but not allowed to modify or add commands. In unrestricted mode, the user can modify an existing workflow, or build one from scratch.

There are a number of pre-built, restricted-mode workflows that can be used for Quantitative Interpretation tasks such as amplitude extraction.