Change conveyor length using GUI

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Devdatta D asked Feb 02 2023 at 7:33 PM Andrew O commented Feb 08 2023 at 10:33 PM

Change conveyor length using GUI

I am trying to edit the length of conveyor using gui. When I add coldlink to length variable I can see the current length but when i change it it doesn't change the conveyor length visually.

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FlexSim 22.2.4

conveyor gui conveyor length

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Answer 1 · 2023-02-02T21:16:50Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Feb 02 2023 at 9:16 PM Devdatta D commented Feb 03 2023 at 9:13 PM

You should use a coldlinkx node and get/set the HorizontalLength property of the conveyor.

Object conveyor = Model.find("StraightConveyor1");
string property = "HorizontalLength";
 
if (eventdata) {
    conveyor.setProperty(property, getviewtext(c).toNum());
    repaintall();
} else
    setviewtext(c, conveyor.getProperty(property));

Here's an example model, ConveyorLengthGUI.fsm

conveyorlengthgui.fsm (35.9 KiB)

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Devdatta D commented · Feb 02 2023 at 10:34 PM

Thanks. I had a question on the code. Why did you use eventfunctions in the tree? What does on kill focus do?

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Devdatta D commented · Feb 02 2023 at 10:50 PM

The code in OnKillFocus is fired when the field loses keyboard focus (after you type something in and then click off). The eventfunctions node is just a node to contain all the code function nodes that the field uses. You don't need it in this case, but there are some cases where the function node has to be under an eventfunctions node to be called.

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Devdatta D Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Feb 03 2023 at 1:23 PM

I can write regular flexscript in the gui builder?

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