Adding Flexsim custom shortcut keys

Hey all.

Has anyone dabbled in creating custom shortcut keys?

What I am looking for is a way to use a keyboard shortcut to execute a bit of Flexscript code. Can this be done, and if not, can it be added to the development list?

Have fun simulating everyone.

Best regards
Christian

You can use a usercommand to add custom shortcut keys. It could look like this:

if(lastkeydown())//key pressed?
{
    switch (lastkeydown())//which key?
    {
        case 113:    //p.e. F2-Key
                         //your code
                         break;
        case 114:    //p.e. F3-Key
                         //your code
                         break;
    }
}

You have to add this usercommand into the trigger OnKeyDown in persp-view.

Attention: Flexsim has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. This could collide with your own shortcut keys.

P.S.: This is a link of shortcut keys but it's not up-to-date (Version 5)

http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...ight=shortcuts

Is it possible to upload an example with this shortkey command in it?

I'm strugling to get the OnKeyDown code into a perspective view to zoom-in with a key (F2).

Kind regards,

Koen van Thiel

Is it possible to work with charCode instead of keyCode? I want to create a zoom function, when I press and hold a button it has to zoom in.

Does anybody know what the code is to do this?

for keyCode I already have:

if(iskeydown(102)) //Numpad 6
if (eq(lastkeydown(),102)) //Numpad 6

kind regards,

Koen van Thiel

You can zoom with pressing both mousebuttons and moving mouse.

Use pd() to print the lastkeydown() to the output console. Then you can check for that specific key by its keycode.

I've been trying to do something similar by creating Views and selecting them with buttons in a custom dashboard. For example: Close-up, Right side, Left side.

But I can't find a Command that would allow to select a predefined View. Is there one? Any other way to do this?

Thanks

The code I am using in my Model Control GUI to open View 1.

On Press:

// SET THE VIEW TO THE CAPTURED VIEW (DON'T FORGET THAT THE GUI NEEDS Apalettewindow ATTRIBUTE)
// STOP THE FLY PATH
flystop();
// POINTER TO CURRENT VIEW
treenode curview = NULL;
curview = node("/Tools/PerspViews/1",model());
// SET THE VIEW
executefsnode(curview,curview,0,0,0);
// SCREENREFESH
repaintall();

As written in the comments it is important, that the GUI needs a “palettwindow” attribute.

This is just a node in the tree like viewfocus, spatialx, OnClose, etc.
Just add a node in the tree and call it “palettwindow”.

I should have indicated that I didn't create a GUI the old fashioned way. I created a Dashboard (new with version 7).

I put the exact above code in the OnPress code of my button on my dashboard (except I changed the 1 for the name of my view).
I've inserted a node called "palettwindow" into my dashboard node.
Nothing happens when I press on the button.
Any ideas?

The code in Tools/PerspViews sets the view on the active document window. When you are clicking in your Dashboard, the dashboard window is the active document window.

Si is there another way to do it? (selecting predefined views through buttons in a dashboard)