Change script of runscript directly in cmd for silent running

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Sebastien asked Nov 21, '23 Sebastien commented Nov 23, '23

Change script of runscript directly in cmd for silent running

Hi !
I am running FlexSim silently with Python executing this command from @Ben Wilson :

  
                 
                  "C:\Program Files\FlexSim 2016\program\flexsim.exe" 
                  "C:\Users\username\Documents\Flexsim 16 Projects\test.fsm" /maintenance 
                  nogui_disablemsg_runscript /scriptpath C:\myscript.txt

Yet I would like to change the script, not in a file but directly in the command line, like this

EDIT:

"C:\Program Files\FlexSim 2016\program\flexsim.exe"
"C:\Users\username\Documents\Flexsim 16 Projects\test.fsm" /maintenance
nogui_disablemsg_runscript 'resetmodel(); runspeed(10000); go();Table("tableName")[1][1] = 1;'

I tried several ways but it did not work and I cannot find the documentation for the command line interface execution of FlexSim. Is this possible ? This would make it easier for me as I'd just need to change input parameters of the model directly in Python instead of saving a temporary file for each simulation I want to run.

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

python command line runscript

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Kavika F ♦ commented · Nov 21, 2023 at 04:48 PM

Hey @Sebastien , I don't think this is possible, primarily because the documentation doesn't mention anything about it.

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Answer 1 · 2023-11-21T18:07:42Z

Phil BoBo answered Nov 21, '23 Sebastien commented Nov 23, '23

Use the commandlineparam() and executestring() commands to pass an arbitrary parameter to FlexSim and execute it as a string.

myscript.txt:

executestring(commandlineparam("myparam"));

command.bat:

"C:\Program Files\FlexSim 2016\program\flexsim.exe" 
"C:\Users\username\Documents\Flexsim 16 Projects\test.fsm" /maintenance 
nogui_disablemsg_runscript /scriptpath C:\myscript.txt /myparam "resetmodel(); runspeed(10000); go();"

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Sebastien commented · Nov 22, 2023 at 09:57 AM

Thank you @Phil BoBo.

This works, except for passing parameters with strings like print("It works") or Table("Table_name")["col"]["row"] = 1. I could have mentionned that I wanted something like that earlier, sorry.

I tried playing with "word" and 'word' but could not make it work either.

I also tried escaping the "".

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ Sebastien commented · Nov 22, 2023 at 02:21 PM

FlexSim's parsing of commandline parameters doesn't handle quotation mark characters within the string.

To account for that, you could use a different character, such as a single quote, and then replace it before calling executestring():

executestring(commandlineparam("myparam").as(string).replace("'", "\"", 1));

"C:\Program Files\FlexSim 2016\program\flexsim.exe" 
"C:\Users\username\Documents\Flexsim 16 Projects\test.fsm" /maintenance 
nogui_disablemsg_runscript /scriptpath C:\myscript.txt /myparam "Table('Table_name')['col']['row'] = 1; resetmodel(); runspeed(10000); go();"

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Sebastien Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Nov 22, 2023 at 02:48 PM

Wonderful ! Thank you @Phil BoBo !

It works beautifully.

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