How to control certain objects via a button in my GUI?

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Chan L2 asked Jan 25, '21 Chan L2 commented Jan 29, '21

How to control certain objects via a button in my GUI?

Hello!

There are several objects in my model (convoyer1, processor1, processor 2, combiner1, ...), and I want to make a GUI where there are several buttons, and each button can get only one object started. For example, when I click button1, convoyer1 will start working, but the other objects (processor1, processor 2, combiner1,...) will not work.

I've tried to add the code below to the attribute of "OnPress" of the button1, but it's not correct. Could you help me to correct my code? Or do you have any example that can be helpful for me? Thank you very much!

treenode machine_c1 = model().find("/Convoyeur 1");
{
    go(1)
}

Have a nice day!

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.2

gui flexsim 20.0.2

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Jan 28, 2021 at 05:47 PM

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Answer 1 · 2021-01-25T13:35:53Z

Allister Wilson answered Jan 25, '21 Chan L2 commented Jan 29, '21

You'll want to :

stop all the objects when the simulation starts : Object.stop
resume each object in the OnPress of its associated button : Object.resume

For point 1, the cleanest approach would probably be an instanced process flow (Process Flow Instances) attached to all the objects you want to stop, which creates a token when the simulation starts, and stops the attached object (Custom Code activity, Control / Stop Object picklist).
Alternatively, you could add all the objects to a group, then create a user event which fires at time 0 and iterates over the group, stopping each object.

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Chan L2 commented · Jan 29, 2021 at 06:37 PM

Thank you very much!

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