how to open another GUI

when I click a button in GUI1, I want to open GUI2.

How to program in the onpress trigger of the button?
thanks.

Syntax: createview(str viewpath, str objectfocus, str viewfocus)

..so viewpath could be "MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GUIs/MyGUI".

To use the objectfocus or viewfocus attributes of your GUI to reference an object it represents, then the paths as strings should be passed in as the 2nd and 3rd paramters.

Jason

Qin,

The easiest and fastest way to learn how to program GUIs is to go and pirate what you want to do from another GUI. The easiest way to do that is to open the GUI you want to pirate from and then right click on it and click on View > Explore Structure. This will open the tree view of the GUI you clicked on. Depending on where you right clicked on the GUI it may not open the tree view up to the base portion of the GUI but you can right click in the tree view and select View > Up to move up until you get to the base if you need to.

Yes, this is how we all do it even the developers who made the GUIs. Why? Because nobody makes GUIs enough to remeber exactly how they coded something and because it's easier and faster than actually doing it over from scratch.

Good Luck,
Brandon

By the way, there is command, such as:

mainmenucommand("File|Open...")

If I want to execute other menu item, such as "File|Save Model As...", what is the exact parameter. It seems that the parameter is not the same as the menu item.

Qin,

Look in the view tree and go to rootmenu/replace and simply look how it is currently done and then copy and adapt it to your own needs.

Steven

mainmenucommand() calls functions that were on Flexsim1's original menu. The menu has changed significantly since then, and the command hasn't been updated accordingly. Only certain things work for that command, and you can usually only find what those are by looking at what the code behind what various Flexsim buttons and menus are doing. Some of them use it; others do not.

Originally Posted by Jason Lightfoot

Syntax: createview(str viewpath, str objectfocus, str viewfocus)

..so viewpath could be "MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GUIs/MyGUI".

To use the objectfocus or viewfocus attributes of your GUI to reference an object it represents, then the paths as strings should be passed in as the 2nd and 3rd paramters.

Jason

Hi, jason, your solution works. But I have another question, how to determine if the MyGUI is already opened?

The solution I normally use is to search through the acitve views and check if the node exists. I compare the names, but because the node name is the name plus a number I just compare the beginning of the name.
Maybe there is a better solution, which I do not know.

I use the following code:

 
//SEARCH THROUGH ALL ACTIVE VIEWS
for(int iContentCounter = 1; iContentCounter <= content(node("/active",views())); iContentCounter++ )
{
//IF NAME EQUALS SPECIFIC NAME
if(comparetext("MyGUI",stringcopy(getname(rank(node("/active",views()),iContentCounter)),1,5) ))
{
msg("MyGUI","MyGUI already open!");
break;
}
}

If I have two guis, MyGUI and MyGUI1, and MyGUI1 is opened and MyGUI is closed, then, the solution will have problem. How to resolve it?

I woud just name one GUI MyGUI1 and the other MyGUI2 and change the stringcopy to 1,6 and make two if-statements.
Or name the GUI depending on the object like MyGUI_ObjectName. And change the stringcopy and compare the object name with the GUI name cut with stringcopy. This would be a more general solution.

I am sure there are situations where some solutions might not working, but normally there is an "easy" solution.

Hi,

If you only want to have one instance of a GUI and activate it when you call the GUI for the second time, I am using this code:

//if window is already opened, just activate instead of making another one.
setcurrent(checkforexistingview(c));
if(objectexists(current))
{
  makeactive(current);
  destroyobject(c);
  return(0);
}

This code I have borrowed from the X_ models Flexsim have posted on this Forum.

Create a node in the GUI called OnPreOpen and add the code first.

Lars-Olof

Lars-Olof,

Thanks for your hint and I checked in my model template the PreOpen node and found that I am using a command to do the job.

In other words is there a command to do the job:
standardpreopen(obj object)
Description: For developer use. Queries if there are any open windows that are the same as the current window being opened. If so, then the current window is closed.
Example:standardpreopen(c)

So the easiest way is to use standardpreopen(c); in the PreOpen node.

Hi, I upload a model, it seems that neither solution works, why?

Hi,

Change the code for your button openGUI 2:

From:
createview("MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GUIs/GUI 2");
To:
createview("MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GUIs/GUI 2","MAIN:/project/model/Tools/GUIs/GUI 2");

Now it should work.

Lars-Olof