How to increment label values and use the new value in as a string?

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Pinakin K asked Apr 26, '18 Pinakin K commented Apr 27, '18

How to increment label values and use the new value in as a string?

In the given model, I have referenced a 3d object as a value for the label, in order to use subflow.(Subflow not shown in the model)

I want to increment the value by one each time the token passes the Assign label activity, in such a way that, the object name would reflect in the label value.

Ex. current label name is LabelName and the value is Shape 24. I have 3 Objects in it, Shape 24, Shape 25, Shape 26. So every time the token passes the assign label activity the name should increment by 1, i.e. It should get the value Shape 25.

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.0.2

label assignment increment label

labeltest.fsm (19.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2018-04-26T18:28:47Z

Steven Hamoen answered Apr 26, '18 Pinakin K commented Apr 27, '18

@Pinakin K This is not directly possible because if you increase references to 3D objects you are actually referencing memory addresses and you never know where the next one is pointing to. But there is a very easy solution. Put your Shapes in a group and increase a counter and get the correct shape out with

Group("group")[memberindex]

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Apr 26, 2018 at 06:58 PM

Using a group is probably the easiest way of doing this.

You could also use model().find() which lets you find an object in the model by its name/path. For example, this returns a reference to Shape24

model().find("Shape24")

You could have a separate ShapeNumber label that you increment and then use that number to build the name of the shape you're looking for:

model().find("Shape" + string.fromNum(token.ShapeNumber))

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Pinakin K Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Apr 27, 2018 at 02:49 PM

Oh yes. thank you! But i was able to solve it using Group. I will also try the other method.

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