How to change slot color?

Question

question

Enrique Elizaga asked Jun 14, '21 Enrique Elizaga commented Jun 15, '21

How to change slot color?

Hi,

I am querying and changing slot labels with code. When I reset the model, these labels are switching back to a previous value. How can I change these "resetLabels"? Currently I am doing it like this:

slots[n].labels.assert("PROXIMITY").value = 4;
slots[n].find("/resetLabels").subnodes[1].value = 4;

Is this correct?

Once changed though, the slot colors seem unchanged when I activate the paint tool even after resetting the model. The slot labels have chenged but their associated colors haven't. Here my example:

Before changing the slot label

After changing the slot label

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.1.1

flexsim 21.1.1 floor storage paint slot labels

1623701918552.png (125.9 KiB)

1623701976084.png (125.9 KiB)

· 2

5 |100000

Attachments: Up to 12 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 23.8 MiB each and 47.7 MiB total.

Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 15, 2021 at 05:31 AM

This, what you see, is the result of a heatmap.

0 ·

Enrique Elizaga Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 15, 2021 at 10:18 AM

@Joerg Vogel yes sir! That is what I am creating, to later assign SKUS based on speed.

0 ·

Answer 1 · 2021-06-15T05:29:59Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jun 15, '21 Enrique Elizaga commented Jun 15, '21

The visualization is a feature of the storage system in the toolbox.

colored-slots.png (71.1 KiB)

· 2

5 |100000

Attachments: Up to 12 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 23.8 MiB each and 47.7 MiB total.

Eric M commented · Jun 15, 2021 at 08:46 PM

Here's a sample model doing what @Joerg was talking about. I just set up a label (Type) and color pallet in the "Slot Labels" tab, then made a new visualization copying the floorstorage and set the Label Reference to Type - Color By Label. Now when the slot labels change, the color will change as well. You can test it by running the script with different "type" values. slot colors.fsm

3 ·

slot-colors.fsm (163.6 KiB)

Enrique Elizaga commented · Jun 15, 2021 at 10:01 PM

@Eric M and @Joerg Vogel this is even cooler than just painting slots to assign labels. It can really make the model communicate a bunch of stuff by displaying slot colors based by condition. Tanks a lot!

1 ·

Answer 2 · 2021-06-14T22:25:15Z

Omar Aguilera Rico answered Jun 14, '21 Enrique Elizaga commented Jun 14, '21

R1.fsm

Hello Enrique, the safest thing is that if your code is working but visually the color is not updated. I made an example model, the information in the Tree is updated but not the color in relation to the value of the label.

I'll keep looking to see where I update the color.

r1.fsm (39.1 KiB)

· 1

5 |100000

Attachments: Up to 12 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 23.8 MiB each and 47.7 MiB total.

Enrique Elizaga commented · Jun 14, 2021 at 11:27 PM

@Omar Aguilera Rico my code already updated the label and reset label for the slots in the tree. My issue is that it does not show in the 3d view.

0 ·

question