Wishlist : gh event parameter press play

I've often used a Boolean switch parameter
to force Recalculation of a components solution.
A lot of other people seem to do this too.
Say if I want to write to a text file from a
component. A true boolean parameter will
tell the componen to output the data.
However to do this requires the user to double
click the Boolean parameter twice. I.e
true false true. Is it possible gh can have an
event parameter I.e a play button icon that can
be attached to a component to tell it to recalculate
if a user presses the button?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 30, 2010 at 4:46am

Good idea. I'll add it to the list.

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on August 30, 2010 at 7:51am

How about just selecting the object in question, then right click on the play button? or having something like a Shift+Ctrl+Alt Click on the component in question expire it.

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on August 30, 2010 at 8:35am

i had this same issue and what i did was create a form that runs in it's own thread and window with a play, pause, reset button and time interval input. that way when you are running a simulation that refreshes fast the play and pause controls do not get locked up because they are in a separate UI thread and having a button for reset is nice too. i can post the code later, it solves a few issues with the current timer object being unstable

Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on August 30, 2010 at 7:25pm

Nice, im doing something similar with my component running a background thread to an external program. It was very tricky and I still dont know enough about threading in general :(

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