automated slider

I have a relative simple problem (I think) and I have been looking at this forum but not been able to find answer.

I have a slider which controls a simulation. The slider runs from 1 to 8760 (the amount of hours per year). For every hour, I will get another result.

Would it be possible to automate the slider so that it starts at 1 and runs through all the numbers until it reaches 8760? I tried it with Galapagos but haven't managed yet.

Any help is appreciated!

/Jouri

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 29, 2013 at 6:14am

There's an Animate option in the slider menu, it's not exactly what you're after, but it's a start.

Another option would be to use the Timer object to keep firing events, then collect these events (for example with a Data Recorder) and count them all. That's also a way to run a simulation over time.

David Rutten

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Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by phillip on August 29, 2013 at 7:29am

There is also another method to execute a series depending on exported output, which is much like David´s second solution.

Permalink Reply by jkanters on August 30, 2013 at 5:02am

Thanks for your comments. I solved it now with the 'GENERATION' plugins counter function. In that way, the slider increases with 1 unit every 1 second.

Permalink Reply by phillip on August 30, 2013 at 6:05am

Good.

Just for the record, this would be the method suggested with native components.

@David: Couldn´t the Timer be able to be connected to a slider / boolean toggle / button / knob / scroller / valuelist right away?

Permalink Reply by Baraa on November 22, 2017 at 1:11pm

Nice way for counting but I couldn't understand why to subtract 2 from the list length?

Permalink Reply by Zohaa Irshad on December 25, 2016 at 8:10am

Hello,

I know this is a very old post and people might already know this solution by now.. but I was just trying to find the solution to this same problem and couldn't find it anywhere on this forum. I eventually figured it out using the counter element.

I hope this helps other amateurs like me :)