How to change color font of a button in the dashboard from code

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anon-user asked May 23, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Jun 6, '22

How to change color font of a button in the dashboard from code

I want to change the color of a button and of a tittle in the dashboard. In the image, for example, I want to change the color of the text "Opciones Pistola" and the color of the font on one button "Opción 0".

I need to do this from code. I could change the image of a button with the following code, but I can´t access the color font.

string controlID = "1";
string imagePath = "Capturas Pistola\\General2.png";
treenode control = getdashboardcontrol(controlID);
treenode bmp = control.as(Object).attrs.assert("bitmap");
bmp.value = imagePath;
refreshview(control);

I was trying a lot of options modifying that code, but I did not achieve any good result.

I had difficulties to find the buttons in the tree.

Thank you a lot in advance.

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.3

dashboards buttons change color font

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Kavika F ♦ commented · Jun 03, 2022 at 05:57 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-25T15:27:03Z

Jason Lightfoot answered May 25, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Jun 6, '22

If it's in the onPress code of the button here's an example that toggles the color:

Object button=c;
if (button.color==Color.blue)
    button.color=Color.red;
else
    button.color=Color.blue;

If you want to set the dashboard defined color from elsewhere here's another example:

Object buttondef=Model.find("Tools/Dashboards/Dashboard/DashboardButton1");
treenode buttoncolor=variables(buttondef).subnodes["buttonColor"];
Color newcolor=Color.red;
buttoncolor.first.value=newcolor.r;
buttoncolor.first.next.value=newcolor.g;
buttoncolor.last.value=newcolor.b;
Object activebuttondef=node("createdView+",variables(buttondef));
if (objectexists(activebuttondef)){
    treenode activeButtonColor=variables(activebuttondef).subnodes["buttonColor"];
    createcopy(buttoncolor,activeButtonColor,1,0,0,1);
    activebuttondef.first.as(Object).color=newcolor;
    repaintview( activebuttondef.first);
}

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anon-user commented · May 27, 2022 at 12:01 PM

Is there a possibility to access easily to some button in the tree or a way to know its name?

I tried to creaate a new button in a new model but I can´t access it in the tree.

Thanks.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ anon-user commented · May 27, 2022 at 12:08 PM

You could put this in the onPress:

applicationcommand("outputconsole");
print (c.up.name);

You can also use getdashboardcontrol() with the ID of the control/widget, but that just gives you the pointer to the button if it the dashboard is open/instantiated. If that's all you needed then you can set it from the ID directly.

getdashboardcontrol(ID).color=Color.red;   //version 20.2 and later
getdashboardcontrol(ID).as(Object).color=Color.red;    //version 20.1 and earlier

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anon-user Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · May 27, 2022 at 01:54 PM

I tried to do that, but I saw in my model I have different buttons with the same name (maybe I made some copy/paste in the dashboard). Is the only way to solve this to remake my dashboard with new buttons? I understand I could have a problems even if I use the "getdashboardcontrol()" method, because this only gives the route with the name of the button (the ID isn not there).

I tried to change the color of one button in a new simplified model (just the button and a custom code to change its color), but I couldn´t achieve that. I uploaded the model here with the problems. FlexSim tells it can´t access "first" label.

Sorry for the problems I could generate, I am a bit lost with this funtionalities of FlexSim.

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