Need help for coding on lifts.

Hi,

I need help for coding for the lifts. I want 3 lifts to serve level 4,5,6 and 1 lift to serve all levels. Can someone help me and guide me along?

Regards,
Chris

Hi,

Really need help on these. Anyone can explain whether do I use the dispatcher to control the lifts in the way i want? Really need some help on the coding.

Regards,
Chris

Chris,

I think you should use 2 dispatchers. 1 for levels 4,5 and 6 and 1 for all levels and then determine what dispatcher you want to use. But ofcourse that means that everybody who is standing on 4 and needs to go to 5 will take one of the three but he could also take the other one so you have to determine with what rule which dispatcher is taken.

Hope this is of any assistance.

Steven

Hi Steven,

I understand about using 2 dispatcher having 1 of them connecting to the lifts which serve level 4,5 and 6 and the other to serve all levels. The problem is I do not know what command should be use in order to have the dispatcher telling the 3 lifts to serve only level 4,5 and 6. Could you advise me on how can I go about doing it?

Regards,
Chirs

Chris,

The dispatchers do nothing more than passing on a tasksequence that you give them to a lift that is free. It is the tasksequence that determines where the lift is traveling. So if you are on level 4 and you create a tasksequence to go to level 5 you have to pass it to the right dispatcher. So instead of writing:
"createemptytasksequence(centerobject(queue,1),0,0 );" you have to change the 1 in a 2 or use a variable. So for instance:

int LiftType = 0;
if( CurrentFloor > 3 && CurrentFloor < 6 && DestinationFloor > 3 && DestinationFloor < 6)
{
LiftType = 1;
}
else
{
LiftType = 2;
}

createemptytasksequence( centerobject( queue, LiftType ), 0, 0 );

Steven

Steven,

Hey thanks. I'll try it out and get back to you again!

Regards,
Chris