I am animating a discret event model and would like to create for every individual entity an individual animated text
field which shows an individual number. So every created Entity should get his own serial number. Is this possible?
I would be grateful for any advice.
Jonas
Jose — 18.04.08
Hello Jonas,
In the Resources Exchange Forum you have the link
http://jmgdurana.googlepages.com/home
from which you can download the file JoseModels.zip
The entities in the first model, Turnstil.alp, have individual colors. Probably you can easily change the color entity
by a number entity. Have luck!
Regards,
Jose
Jose — 21.04.08
Hello Jonas,
In the Resources Exchange Forum you have the link http://jmgdurana.googlepages.com/home
from which you can download the file
3. EntitySetShapeDynamicly.alp
where entities have individual numbers.
Kind regards,
Jose
Pavel — 26.06.08
Please put the tick in the ‘Unique shape for each entity’ check box in the general properties of ‘source’
element. Then create a group of shapes to animate entity (e.g. ‘oval’ and ‘text’) and type the name of this
group in the ‘Entity animation shape’ field in general properties of ‘sink’ element. For instance you want each
entity has the animated text field with its order number. So you should type the following code in ‘On Enter’ field
of some element from Enterprise Library:
ShapeGroup g = (ShapeGroup)entity.getShape(); //create new ‘Group’ for this entity
ShapeText text = (ShapeText)g.get(1); //create new ‘Text’ for this entity
text.setText(""+plainVar); // set text as plain variable’s value (order number)
plainVar++;
Entity will have its own unique animation (order number) along the whole flowchart after it enters this block where you
have typed such code.