How do I link a combo box to an edit box?

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Eduardo asked Oct 24, '23 Eduardo commented Oct 31, '23

How do I link a combo box to an edit box?

Hi,

I want to build a GUI with a combobox which I want to associate with distributions and the parameters can be changed. for example combobox has the following options 1. normal(mean-std dev), option 2. weibull (location-scale-shape), lognormal mean dest dev (mean-std dev). When the user chooses one of these 3 distributions, he can enter the parameters that define said distribution. If he chooses Weibull, the parameters to enter would be location, scale and shape. In this case I want to implement it for the MTBF MTTR times

I would appreciate it very much.

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.1

gui builder

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Oct 30, 2023 at 11:50 PM

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Eduardo Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Oct 31, 2023 at 02:02 AM

yes, your answer was very helpful in te interface i am developing. this space is very gratifying to ask questions.

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-25T19:12:22Z

Jonah K answered Oct 25, '23 Eduardo commented Oct 31, '23

I demonstrated how you can do this in this model:

ComboBoxEdit_JK.fsm

The inter-arrival times for Source1 have a "value by case" which looks at the GUI combobox as the case function. Each case in the combobox (1, 2, 3) will use a corresponding distribution (Normal, Weibull, Lognormal) to determine the arrival time. Then, I replaced each parameter in the function with a reference to a Global Table cell, instead of a number. So now, you can edit the Global Table to have the parameters you want for each statistical distribution, and can use the combobox to select a distribution.

comboboxedit-jk.fsm (48.3 KiB)

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Eduardo commented · Oct 31, 2023 at 01:51 AM

Thank you very much! It helped me a lot!

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