Global variables

Hello!! I want to create automatically global variables by source code. But I don't know how to do it. Can I do it by creating nodes in the Tools node? (Inside this node is the node GlobalVariables and I thought on creating nodes there with the specified data of each global variable).

Thanks.

Originally Posted by juan alberto

Hello!! I want to create automatically global variables by source code. But I don't know how to do it. Can I do it by creating nodes in the Tools node? (Inside this node is the node GlobalVariables and I thought on creating nodes there with the specified data of each global variable).

Thanks.

Any ideas please???

You're right - you can edit the tree structure in tools - then from the GUI's OnApply you can see it calls refreshglobalvariables(); and then buildnodeflexscript(model()); which you'll need to do as well.

The first column is the variable name; 2nd is the data type (see below) and the third is the value. Note the 3rd column is DATATYPE_STRING even when the variable is numeric, and if it's an array type that cell will need to have subnodes containing the array data.

Global variable datatypes:
1: Integer
2: Double
3: Treenode
4: String
5: Integer array
6: Double array
7: Treenode array
8: String array

Originally Posted by Jason Lightfoot

You're right - you can edit the tree structure in tools - then from the GUI's OnApply you can see it calls refreshglobalvariables(); and then buildnodeflexscript(model()); which you'll need to do as well.

The first column is the variable name; 2nd is the data type (see below) and the third is the value. Note the 3rd column is DATATYPE_STRING even when the variable is numeric, and if it's an array type that cell will need to have subnodes containing the array data.

Global variable datatypes:
1: Integer
2: Double
3: Treenode
4: String
5: Integer array
6: Double array
7: Treenode array
8: String array

Ok, I needed to "refreshglobalvariables()"

Thanks !!!

Hi Jason,

can you please explain how to use the buildnodeflexscript command to create a global variable by code?

I thought it maybe could be like this:

buildnodeflexscript("MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GlobalVariables", new global variable(column1, column2, column3));

Thanks!

It isn't buildnodeflexscript(model()) that adds the variables - I think that call is just something that should be done after you add a new global variable (maybe to update any references ?)

So you just need to look at the tree and create the nodes yourself as outlined above.