How to make a custom GUI

Hello

I am trying to make a custom GUI for my model such that all the necessary information in the model can be modified and the relevant outputs can be displayed simultaneously. To begin with I am trying to do the following things.

1.) I want to have a checkbox in the GUI. If the check box is selected a particular code lets say code 1 should run. And if it is deselected an alternate code 2 should run.
2.) A value of a certain parameter is calculated at a particular event and stored as label on a queue. I want that whenever this value is updated it should also be displayed on the GUI.

In addition if someone can post a simple model explaining hotlinks, it will be highly appreciated.

Hello Mearjun,

You could use the hotlink to refer to the label on your queue and it will show and update the value of your label. Add a hotlink to an edit object on your GUI, make it a text node and set the text to: @>objectfocus+>labels/labelname.

For the other question, when should the code run? If you have code somewhere, first check the value of the label(?) where you stored the setting of the checkbox. Then use an if...else statement to run your code.

Esther

Originally Posted by Esther Bennett

Hello Mearjun,

You could use the hotlink to refer to the label on your queue and it will show and update the value of your label. Add a hotlink to an edit object on your GUI, make it a text node and set the text to: @>objectfocus+>labels/labelname.

I added a hotlink to the edit box object and wrote @>objectfocus+>labels/avg_WTBS (the latter being the name of a label on a queue) but it does nothing

Originally Posted by Esther Bennett

For the other question, when should the code run? If you have code somewhere, first check the value of the label(?) where you stored the setting of the checkbox. Then use an if...else statement to run your code.

How can I store the setting of a checkbox. Which attribute of the checkbox changes when it is selected or deselected.

I am attaching a small sample model. Here is what I want to do.

1.) I want that source should only create a part if the checkbox is selected. I have written a non-working code on the "onflow" trigger of the source.
2.) The process time is stored as a label on the processor. I want this info to be displayed in the edit box. The label gets its value in the "process time" code.

I would highly appreciate if you could make this work on this sample model.

Hello Maerjun,

Did you redirect the GUI to the queue or is it a control GUI? @>objectfocus+ works when the GUI is redirected to the object that holds the >labels/labelname part. If the GUI is not connected to the object you need to replace @>objectfoucs+ with something like MAIN:/project/model/QueueName.

To connect the checkbox to i.e. a label on the Queue, you add a coldlink or hotlink attribute with the same type of link as the editfield, but with a different labelname.

Esther

Originally Posted by Esther Bennett

Hello Maerjun,

Did you redirect the GUI to the queue or is it a control GUI? @>objectfocus+ works when the GUI is redirected to the object that holds the >labels/labelname part. If the GUI is not connected to the object you need to replace @>objectfoucs+ with something like MAIN:/project/model/QueueName.
Esther

No because I want it to be a model control GUI. I dont want to replace the Queue's GUI with it.

Originally Posted by Esther Bennett

To connect the checkbox to i.e. a label on the Queue, you add a coldlink or hotlink attribute with the same type of link as the editfield, but with a different labelname.
Esther

I did not get what u meant here.

If you or anyone can please help me with a sample model (the one attached above) it will be a gr8 help. Its a very basis model with a source, queue, processor and a sink.. You just have to fill in the blanks...!!

Hello Arjun,

Maybe is your problem the objectfocus. The Objectfocus is updated if you link the GUI to a selected object properly. But you want to create a control GUI. Your Objectfocus is still to MAIN:/project/model/. Now you build your own path to your attribute you want to change from this starting node.
Beware of the hints given in the manual, if you want to change values that are results of scripts and functions.
Interesting commands are "nodetomodelpath(obj or node)" or "nodetopath(obj or node)" to get the path. Please see in the command reference in the help.

Jörg

Originally Posted by mearjun

I am attaching a small sample model. Here is what I want to do.

1.) I want that source should only create a part if the checkbox is selected. I have written a non-working code on the "onflow" trigger of the source.
2.) The process time is stored as a label on the processor. I want this info to be displayed in the edit box. The label gets its value in the "process time" code.

I would highly appreciate if you could make this work on this sample model.

Hi... i think i got it working...not sure how to use the comand to check the checkbox, so i just coldlinked it to a label on the source.

regards

Pablo

Originally Posted by Pablo Concha

Hi... i think i got it working...not sure how to use the comand to check the checkbox, so i just coldlinked it to a label on the source.

regards

Pablo

Hey. thanks a ton man.. U really solved a problem for me.. just to confirm the objectfocus works even for a model control GUI..