GUI State Graph

Hi

I'm just starting to use GUI controls but I can't seem to get the state graph working properly.

I have tried using an example Tom David posted a while ago as a start point and I tried to copy it however mine doesn't seem to work.

If someone could have a quick look it would be appreciated. I think its to do with where the GUI is looking for the stats?

Thanks

Anthony

Anthony,

I'm also new to custom GUIs. I think the '+' signs in the paths for viewfocus and graphpiedata are the problem.

You have...

MAIN:/project/model/Operator7+>stats/state/state_profile

and if instead I put ...

MAIN:/project/model/Operator7>stats/state/state_profile

it seems to work for me in v4.5

Also, make sure the paths are on line 1, not line 2.

You may not need any more than MAIN:/project/model in viewfocus.

Good Luck,
Dennis

Anthony,

You have been very close.
Your code:

MAIN:/project/model/Operator7+>stats/state/state_profile

My code:
MAIN:/project/model/Operator7>stats/state/state_profile

There was just a ‘+’ too much in your code.
And be aware, that my code is in the first line and your code is in the second line. This makes a difference, because in GUI’s the code has to be in the first line, as far as I know, because it is a direct reference.

Anyway, change this and it should work.

After I made my post, I saw that Dennis made one at the same time.

Anyway, looks like that we both found the same solution.

Glad to know I was on the right track!

Just in case somebody doesn't know what the + is for.

In GUIs you can have an objectfocus or viewfocus node that stores a path to an object in the model. For example:

MAIN:/project/model/Source1

Later in the GUI you may want a cold link to a node within the object that the GUI is focused on (ie a label or variable). In the cold link you would see the following code for a label:

@>objectfocus+>labels/mylabel

The @ character is the simple way of saying start from the main GUI that the cold link is in. If we did not have the plus sign then the cold link would expect that the labels node was inside of the object focus node. Because we want to get to the labels node of Source1 we include the + sign which basically says "Not this node but the one for which it contains the address for"

Because Anthony was not pointing to a node with the address but giving the address himself the + sign was not necessary.

Hopefully this little explaination helps.

Thanks for everyones help.