Dot Syntax replacement for settablenum/str

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samuel.p asked Dec 14, '16 samuel.p commented Dec 14, '16

Dot Syntax replacement for settablenum/str

First of all I love the new dot syntax and arrays that you've added with the new parser. I do think that more documentation regarding both should have been added to the user manual before the official release though. I was using the old array types in a couple of my models. The error threw me for a bit of a loop after upgrading the model file.

Just had a quick question in regards to setting a table's cell value using the new dot syntax.

What I've come up with is:

int tempValue = 3;
Table outputTable = reftable("tableName");
outputTable.cell(row, col).value = tempValue;

This seems to work but I wanted to double check if this is correct. If so I was assuming that setting it up this way would work as well but it doesn't:

int tempValue = 3;
reftable("tableName").cell(row, col).value = tempValue;

I'm assuming that reftable is returning a treenode type and not the new Table type. This leads me to believe that there may be another way?

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.0

flexscript table dot syntax 17.0.0

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Dec 14, 2016 at 08:06 PM

The reason this doesn't work

int tempValue = 3; 
reftable("tableName").cell(row, col).value = tempValue;

is because reftable returns a treenode and not a Table object. You need to cast the treenode as a Table object. One way is the way you demonstrated where you assign the result of reftable to a Table object.

int tempValue = 3; 
Table outputTable = reftable("tableName");
outputTable.cell(row, col).value = tempValue;

The other way is to use the as method that casts one type into another type (although it throws errors if it can't do the cast).

int tempValue = 3; 
reftable("tableName").as(Table).cell(row, col).value = tempValue;

We should have a replacement for reftable in 17.1 that will return a Table object instead of a treenode.

However, the easiest way to do this is to use bracket notation as Regan suggests.

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samuel.p Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Dec 14, 2016 at 08:09 PM

Okay cool that was more of the answer I was looking for. I was not aware that the you could use the bracket notation though so that does help. Thanks! :)

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-14T19:59:33Z

Regan Blackett answered Dec 14, '16 samuel.p commented Dec 14, '16

You can use bracket notation with the tables, and basically treat them like arrays like this:

outputTable[row][column] = tempValue;

This approach is also pretty smart in that it assigns the right data type depending if tempValue is a number or a string.

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samuel.p commented · Dec 14, 2016 at 08:10 PM

That is a lot cleaning than using .cell().value - thanks for your input!

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