Setting the number of operators

Hi,
Is there a trick or demo model that automatically generate (or activate) only necessary number of operators/transporters based on the given user input?
I need to test several scenarios varying the number of operators. I would like to avoid attaching/detaching operators manually to the dispatcher by scenario.
Any advice will be appreciated.

Just attach all your operators, then based on the scenario, close the input ports of the operators that are not needed. And make sure you open the input ports of the ones you do need to make sure everything is reset from previous scenarios.

just out of curiosity, instead of attaching max operators, is there a way to generate and attach the operators to the port automatically? I think I am too lazy.. .. just checking though.

Sung,

Connect a Dispatcher to at least one Operator, create a label on the Dispatcher called OperatorQty. Then in the OnReset of the Dispatcher place the following code:


treenode current = ownerobject(c);

/**Create and connect operators based on a label value*/
//this code assumes that you always have at least 1 operator on this team

int oprequired = getlabelnum(current,"OperatorQty");
int opnow = nrop(current);

if(opnow>oprequired) //we have too many operators
{

for(int index=opnow; index>oprequired; index--)

{

destroyobject(outobject(current,index));

}

}
else if(oprequired>opnow) //we need more operators
{

for(int index=opnow+1; index<=oprequired; index++)

{

//createinstance(node("/Source",library()),model()); //alternative option to create copy

createcopy(outobject(current,1),model()); //copy the first operator connected

contextdragconnection(current,last(model),"A"); //connect the new operator

}

openallop(current); //allows the Dispatcher to acknowledge the connection

}

Thank you very much, Kris! It is so COOL!! (You are good... )