Change Combobox options with code

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Manuel Sinco asked Apr 13, '21 Manuel Sinco commented Apr 16, '21

Change Combobox options with code

Hello, I want to change the values inside the combobox using code in a dashboard GUI.

Currently I was able to change the values in the table, from the active view; however, when the Edit Mode is off and I change the values, they won't update. Here is an example of my code:

treenode combo = gui.subnodes["GraphPanel"].subnodes["Combobox_StaPath"].first;
treenode items_ = combo.find(">items");
items_.subnodes.clear();
items_.subnodes.assert("value_01",1);
items_.subnodes.assert("value_02",2);
items_.subnodes.assert("value_05",5);

the gui treenode was already defined and matches to the dashboard that is already the GUI.

So the table for the combobox is this one:

However it doesn't update and appears like this:

It will update until I turn on the Edit Mode and click in the table to this:

However I want it to update automatically due to that this will change every time I update some values.

I already updated the table in the background, the only missing step is to update the view of the table in the GUI dashboard.

I would appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Manuel.

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.2

flexsim 19.1.2

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Answer 1 · 2021-04-13T16:46:45Z

Julio R answered Apr 13, '21 Manuel Sinco commented Apr 16, '21

Hello @Manuel Sinco,

Can you send us your model to try a few things? If it has information that cannot be shared and you can delete everything but that dashboard that would be enough.

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Manuel Sinco commented · Apr 13, 2021 at 05:15 PM

Hi @Julio R I'm attaching you the model.

Update_Combobox.fsm

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Julio R Manuel Sinco commented · Apr 14, 2021 at 12:04 AM

Hello Manuel,

if at the end of your code you insert this line:

comborefresh(ownerobject(items_));

it will refresh the options.

I did not know that command, but since it changes when you select the pickoption I figure it must be one in that option, so I explored its extructure. To do this I right click the box and selected View>Explore structure,

In the tree that this shows I look for a trigger "OnPress", but it ended up being "addOption", there, I read the code and found out that command.

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Manuel Sinco Julio R commented · Apr 16, 2021 at 01:57 PM

Thank you @Julio R this solved the problem, actually that's how I found how to update the values inside the table, but didn't saw that command before. Thank you!

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