Displaying the simulation time with the various date/time formats.

This can be accomplished with the use of a VisualTool object. Simply drag a VisualTool into your model and set it display text. Under "Text Display", choose "Display Time". The code inside gives good ideas about how to display on-screen texts.

If you want to compute the week and day using code, you can do following:

double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/3600;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*3600*week)/24/3600;

In order to display week and day in the VisualTool, replace the code in the Text Display with the following:

treenode current = ownerobject(c);
treenode  textnode = parnode(1);
/**Display Time. Format - Week w, Day d*/
double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/3600;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*3600*week)/24/3600;
string timetext = 
concat(
    "Week ",
    numtostring(week,0,0),", Day ",
    numtostring(day,0,0)
);
setnodestr(textnode, timetext);

Regan:
This did not work. When I started running the model, the date did not change from "Week 0, Day 0".

It does work for me, code assumes you're working on seconds, so it may take a while to change days/weeks if you're running the model slow (86400 time units for each day).. you can change the 3600 on the model for 60 to work in minutes... or 1 in hours, etc...

regards,

Pablo Concha E.

I meant to thank you sooner for your reply.

How about if I want to display the Day of the week - ie: Sunday, Monday, etc.?

Originally Posted by JMEngelhart

How about if I want to display the Day of the week - ie: Sunday, Monday, etc.?

Hello,

I think this works... (working on minutes)....

treenode current = ownerobject(c);
treenode  textnode = parnode(1);
/**Display Time. Format - Week w, Day d*/
double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/60;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*60*week)/24/60;
string daystr;
switch(day)
{
    case 0: daystr = "Monday";break;
    case 1: daystr = "Tuesday";break;
    case 2: daystr = "Wednesday";break;
    case 3: daystr = "Thursday";break;
    case 4: daystr = "Friday";break;
    case 5: daystr = "Saturday";break;
    case 6: daystr = "Sunday";break;
}
string timetext = 
concat(
    "Week ",
    numtostring(week,0,0),", ",
    daystr
);
setnodestr(textnode, timetext);

regards,

Pablo Concha E.

Any chance you could describe how to have this display on a GUI?

Thanks
Albert

You can do this with a hotlinkx on a static control in a GUI.

Use setviewtext(c,timetext) instead of setnodestr(textnode, timetext)

See the attached model.

Thanks Phil,

I am having trouble opening the attached model, when I open it, the system console displayes the following message;

exception: Exception caught in flexscript execution of VIEW:/nodefunctions/menucommands/File/openmodel line 44 instruction 109. Discontinuing execution.

Is anyone else having this problem? The model is opening fine on my computer.

Make sure you have the latest version of the software (5.0.4).

no problem here, (v 5.04)

regards

Pablo Concha Erilkin

Sorry, I am running on Version 5.00 in a computer where I have no admin priviledges. I have contacted the admin of the university faculty where the licenses are stored, hopefully this can be remedied soon.

Thanks
Albert

Hello,

through the search function I found this article. It was helpful but I have an other problem. So I´ll open this thread again.
It is possible to show the right calendar date with the visualtool?
If I will start a simulation run, for example at the 1th January 2012 - how I can show that.

Many thanks in advance for your help
regards Michael