AnyLogic’s controls application - anylogic

I want to use an AnyLogic’s controls such as Combo box and Radio Buttons for changing a parameter from the start. But now I can change the parameter only after the simulation is started. I want Anylogic at first show me the Radio Buttons and I choose the parameter and after that, I start the run.
Do you have any solutions?

This is what Experiment objects are for. Please learn how to use them via the tutorials and the help
Essentially, create parameters on Main and replicate them on experiment screens with variables and radio buttons linked to those. Then you can feed the user values to your Main using the experiment properties (section "Parameters").
Note that it is slightly different with cloud experiment setups.

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Visibility parameter of WPF control not visible with UI Automation?

I started writing test for a WPF application with FlaUI (UI Automation framework). Now I want to get the Visibility value of a couple of buttons.
These buttons are located on the same position in the WPF window. The first is a start button which will start a measurement. When clicked, the measurement button is replaced with a stop button. The visibility of these buttons are set in the code behind of the xaml and needs to be checked/verified.
With FlaUI I only get IsEnabled boolean and OffScreen boolean. But when using the Offscreen parameter, this boolean is not set or is set to the correct value for a couple of seconds but is changed again while the measurement is still running.
I also tried other ways, like looking for a clickable point of the not visible button. But those are not working.
Can this be done without extending the button class with an AutomationPeer and exposing a ValuePattern? I googled a bit but cannot find an (decent) answer. Hopefully someone can help.
I think an important part of your question is the word "replaced". Commonly a program draws one set of controls (in your case the start button) and later draws another set. Possible on top to hide the first, or possible by deleting them.
Commonly controls, including buttons, are drawn within other containing controls and so it may be that the button controls are not there at all, hence the visibility checks should be done on the parent or ancestor controls.
This Q&A seems related to the problem you are having and it may provide some more insight.

How can I add a custom column menu tab in ag-grid?

Is there a way to add a custom column menu tab with my own favourite icon which on click would render my custom react component?
something like
myColDef.menuTabs: ['generalMenuTab', 'filterMenuTab', 'myCustomMenuTab']
FYI I'm using v12.0.2
What you're after can't be done I'm afraid. The grid supports React components in all sorts of ways (renderers, editors, filters etc), but not via the column menu.
I've updated the docs page to remove the gibberish issue - it'll be fixed properly in the next release, thanks for highlighting this.
This would be helpful to have. In particular for us, we'd like to filter based off row properties, and not row values. Creating our own tab to filter by cell colors that we have assigned with our own set of labels would be useful.
I agree that it would be a nice feature to have. Apparently, there's no quick out-of-the-box solution to do it. The only workaround I see is to implement your own custom Header component which would display any buttons your want.
There you can put a button to open your own custom menu, which you can implement as any regular UI component. It also means you'll need to manually implement all standard menu options that Ag-Grid provides out of the box if you need them.

How do I get a chart to redraw itself when the model is paused?

I have a Time Stack Chart whose data set can be changed by clicking on a radio button. While the model is running, the chart instantaneously updates its appearance when a radio button is clicked. When the model is paused, however, the chart's area becomes blank when a radio button is clicked; the legend, in contrast, updates automatically. How do I manually force the chart area to redraw itself?
When you pause a model, only a part of Anylogic is actually paused. The thread that handles the GUI keeps running, which is why you can navigate around in the model while it is paused.
This also means that if you try to update a chart's data while the simulation is paused, the appearance will refresh but -- as your data is being updated in another thread that is currently paused -- it will not have received that data.
If you want to pause the simulation and still be able to switch the data being displayed in a chart, you could take a look at the Airport example model. It provides a good method to switch between different charts by making them visible/invisible and adjusting the width, height, x and y. Essentially, you make all of the charts you need, overlap them perfectly, and then make visible the one that is currently of interest to you.
If you want to create the charts programmatically, on top of creating the chart with, e.g., new TimeStackChart(...), you also have to add it to the top level presentation group with main.presenation.add(...). If you don't do this, the chart will never appear in the model as the model won't have anything to display! To find more information on how to create a chart programmatically, make a chart in Main and then open Main in the Java editor. Find the chart you created, take a look at it's constructor (there are a lot of arguments!), and use it as rough template for the charts you wish to create. The Help documentation will further make sense of the parameters you see.
have you tried the chart.refresh(); method?
Also try to update the embedding agent using agent.onChange().
hope that helps
I encountered the exact same problem, and came up with workaround.
Try this, which I know works in AnyLogic v7:
if (getEngine.getState() == getEngine().PAUSED ){
dynChart.setSelectedItemIndices( new int[]{0} );
dynChart.setSelectedItemIndices( null );
}
I was able to get the chart to refresh manually when paused or finished by selecting/deselecting one of the legend items. I spent a few hours try out API variations to no avail, so I just emulated what was actually working in the UI and it worked.
I am dynamically generating a text item as the chart title, but I have not had the same luck getting the text to refresh when paused like the chart. Any ideas on that one?

Access Forms prevent mouse from selecting values from dropdown, force keyb input

I have a data entry form. Its properly tab indexed etc. and there are three dropdown menus which automatically unfurl with the on enter event.
No matter how much advice i give to users about using the tab key and keboard and checking what they just input.
they still insist on using the mouse to select values from the dropdown menus
the problem is that in their haste they often make mistakes as a result of using the mouse.
I would like to be able to force users to input into these fields using the keyboard.
the drop down is neccessary for users see the appropriate values for the field because the values will vary based on previous selections.
I have already tried experimenting with onclick events but to no avail.
Is there a way I can do this?
i am using access 2007 many of the users have access 2003.
Based on your comments, I would take one of two different approaches.
If your users are really comfortable with the codes AND know which ones they should use based on their previous selections, then just use text boxes instead of combo boxes. You can still put some validation code in either the Form_BeforeUpdate event or the individual control's _BeforeUpdate event.
If the users are not that comfortable, then I would suggest you have the first field in the combo boxes be the description of the code, not the code itself. So instead of choosing from 101, 102, 103 they are instead choosing from "Small", "Medium", "Large" or whatever those codes actually apply to. If you still wanted to display the codes themselves, you could do that with a separate disabled text box.
Now to answer your actual question. For the record, I highly recommend against using this approach. The simplest way I can thing of to prevent your users from using the mouse to select the combo box, would be to add a Transparent button covering the combo box.
To do this, draw a regular command button over the combo. Set Transparent = Yes, Visible = Yes, Enabled = Yes, Tab Stop = No.
When users click on the combo now, they will actually be clicking on the Transparent button and nothing will happen. The ONLY way they will be able to get into the control is by tabbing from a neighboring control or using a hotkey (via '&' in attached label).
Once they enter the control via Tab and your code forces a dropdown, they will still be able to choose an option using the mouse. But by forcing them to use the keyboard initially, it will make it much more likely that they just stick with the keyboard.
Again--I can't stress this enough--I think this is a terrible, horrible, no-good idea. Please don't use this approach. But you asked a technical question and this site is all about giving technical answers, so there you go...

Add/remove usercontrol in panorama item using MVVM - Windows Phone

I have a panorama app that has two panorama items so far, "recent" and "popular." These get populated with data using binding from a viewmodel. I would like to add a third ("search") panorama item that initially shows just a text box and a button.
When the user inputs text and clicks on the button, I want the text box and button to be replaced with the ListBox control that shows the search results.
I cannot find any examples on how to do this using the MVVM pattern. I am not using a MVVM framework and would like not to since I am just learning all this.
If you can explain or better, point me to examples that will allow me to do this, I would very much appreciate the help. If I left out any required info in my request, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Kamal
Typically for something like this you would have a property in your ViewModel that would tell the view what to show. You have lots of different options for how you could do this.
One option would be to have a Results property that your list box is bound to. Put the textbox and button in a Grid and bind the Visibility property of the grid to a property that is Visible is there are no results and not visible if there are.
Lots of different ways to do this.
Examples here and here.
You could probably bind a list of a custom class to the panorama ite .
The custom class contains a title and/or description and a page class.
You can maintain your views in your main viewmodel.
Another solution would be adding the items in xaml and using the same viewmodel for the whole panorama item control. With a property you can control the visibility of each item.
Like Bryant said: there are so many solutions. It depends on your application and requirements... :)