Automatically scroll windows after open

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Maksim B asked Jul 7, '20 Ben Wilson answered Sep 10, '20

Automatically scroll windows after open

In my GUI window I have some text and few hyperlinks. Is there a way to automatically sroll the window after click the button which open the GUI window to the specific hyperlink position.

For example, I define in code int x=5; so after I open the GUI window I want it to scroll automatically to the position of 5th hyperlink points to.

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.7

flexsim 20.0.7 automatically hyperlink scroll

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Jeff Nordgren commented · Jul 09, 2020 at 03:41 PM

@Maksim B,

To receive a more accurate solution, please post your model or something similar that demonstrates your question. Proprietary models can be posted as a private question for FlexSim U.S. support only.

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Answer 1 · 2020-09-10T22:23:12Z

Ben Wilson answered Sep 10, '20

Hi @maksim.b,

You can use the FlexScript function callwebscriptmethod() to call Javascript functionality in an HTML GUI widget from other FlexSim GUI widgets.

Here is an example model: callwebscriptmethod-linkExample.fsm

Under the Toolbox you can examine "GUI 1" to see how this is built. Here are the basics:

test HTML page content is from https://github.com/cbracco/html5-test-page/blob/master/index.html
There is a single callwebscriptmethod call on the Go! button that calls a function innerLinks that is defined at the bottom of the html, passing the user typed CSS Selector string.
The innerLinks Javascript function is very basic, and can be found at the very bottom of the HTML content. You could include a JS library or other logic to enable smooth scrolling to your inner links, or perform other more advanced JS in the page.

Let us know of any questions.

callwebscriptmethod-linkexample.fsm (28.1 KiB)

innerlinksexample.gif (269.8 KiB)

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