realtime() as a trigger?

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craig-dickson asked Jan 11, '24 Jeanette F commented Jan 17, '24

realtime() as a trigger?

Is it possible to use realtime() as an event for e.g. an event driven source? We want to poll a database for new information to reconfigure the model and make new predictions.

If necessary we could use model time and run speed as a proxy, but doing it directly would be better if it doesn't make the run speed unreasonably slow.

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FlexSim 24.0.1

realtime event driven

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jan 17 at 04:45 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-01-12T00:43:39Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jan 12, '24

I think this would normally be done as part of the model reset sequence via the earliest Parameter onSet trigger (which would allow other parameters to be set and the model reconfigured before it is fully reset).

You can schedule a realtime delay in your code but if you have other things running in the model they will continue to run, and if you stop the model then this realtime delay is also suspended.

await Delay.realTime(1);  //causes your code to suspend for one second.

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