Global arrays declared with no o f elements only

[RalfGruber]

Hi,

after I just used a global integer array with 55 elements and had to press 55 times the button to add an element and had to fill in an initial value 55 times, I´m going to post this suggestion:
Can´t we have an alternative way to declare a global array with just the number of elements we like and have the initial values optional?
I think that would save much time since initializing an array with a loop is much more comfortable than filling each value manually.

Thanks

Ralf aka Ralle
Felxsim Germany

[Phil BoBo]

If you want to initialize your array using a loop in code instead of manually in the GUI, you can just look at the code for the Add button and steal it. (By using the right click option View > Explore Structure.)

treenode arraylist = node("/1/GlobalVariables/variable1/3",model());

for(int r=1;r<=55;r++)
{
nodeinsertinto(arraylist);
nodeadddata(last(arraylist),DATATYPE_STRING);
setnodestr(last(arraylist),"1234");
}


Anything that any GUI does in Flexsim is visible to the user to take that code and put it to work in whatever way you need.

[RalfGruber]

Phil,

of course, you are right, but this is the experienced user solution. I thought the global variables GUI was created to help less or none experienced users so I still like the idea to have another editfield were you just have to put in the number of elements for an array you want to create.

Tanks

Ralf aka ralle