Create/ copy widget in visu

[Trond Hoyem]

Hi

I am creating a script for automatically creating widget in normal visu (not Mosaic) based on templates. I have stolen some ideas from this thread; https://forum.logicmachine.net/showthrea...50#pid7450

But I want to do it a little different as this rigid address structure does not suit me, and I am too lazy to create all widgets and then modify them by script. I want to let the script create everything for me.

I think I may have a plan ready, but I am missing one thing; is there a command for making a copy of a widget? I need to do that in the beginning of the script to have anything to add items to.

[Trond Hoyem]

No answer from anyone... does this mean that it is not possible?

[admin]

You can create a copy of plan/widget like this:

Code:

oldid = 123
item = db:getrow('SELECT * FROM visfloors WHERE id=?', oldid)
item.id = nil
db:insert('visfloors', item)
newid = db:getlastautoid()

[Trond Hoyem]

You can create a copy of plan/widget like this:

Code:

oldid = 123
item = db:getrow('SELECT * FROM visfloors WHERE id=?', oldid)
item.id = nil
db:insert('visfloors', item)
newid = db:getlastautoid()

Great!
Will try that.

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OK, this part is working. But to be able to add stuff to the widget I need to enter the position of each item. I tried to log the items on a widget to see what information I couldt get. A typical object gave me;
lageWidgets 25.10.2019 10:10:14
* table:
["object"]
* number: 65794
["id"]
* number: 3
["type"]
* number: 1
["name"]
* string:
["statusobject"]
* number: 65794

But I would need to have all the properties that we find in the visu-creation interface. Is there anywhere I can read up on this to find what I am looking for?

[Trond Hoyem]

You can create a copy of plan/widget like this:

Code:

oldid = 123
item = db:getrow('SELECT * FROM visfloors WHERE id=?', oldid)
item.id = nil
db:insert('visfloors', item)
newid = db:getlastautoid()

Great!
Will try that.

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OK, this part is working. But to be able to add stuff to the widget I need to enter the position of each item. I tried to log the items on a widget to see what information I couldt get. A typical object gave me;
lageWidgets 25.10.2019 10:10:14
* table:
["object"]
  * number: 65794
["id"]
  * number: 3
["type"]
  * number: 1
["name"]
  * string:
["statusobject"]
  * number: 65794

But I would need to have all the properties that we find in the visu-creation interface. Is there anywhere I can read up on this to find what I am looking for?

Never mind last post. I found it. I had some limitations in my SQL select, so without that, every parameter came in tho log.

[Trond Hoyem]

Hi

I am facing a problem here. I have created a script that is adding widgets to the visu, and adding labels and objects to the widgets based on my object list. I have done it all on an older SpaceLYnk I had in my office, and everything worked fine.

Now I have copied the script to a newer SL at a project and am running the script. But on this SL the widgets are created, but no labels or objects are added to the widgets.

To insert the widget I greate a table with all properties of the widget and then use the following;

Code:

db:insert('visfloors', widget)

widget being the table with properties. This part works.

When adding labels and objects I also create a table and add it like this;

Code:

db:insert('visobjects', element)

I have logged the tables, and they have the right values as far as I can see, but the elements are not added to the database. Has there been a change in this for the newer HW version. I am running FW 2.3.0 on both the new and the old SL that I have tested the script.

[admin]

Have you assigned floor value for elements to new floor id? Also try logging return values of insert statement, it might show where the error is.

[Trond Hoyem]

Have you assigned floor value for elements to new floor id? Also try logging return values of insert statement, it might show where the error is.

Yes, when I log the table, I have floor value, but when I log the visobjects with last floor value, the table is empty.

One other thing I can see; when I create the table I have a line stating element.id = nil to get an automatic ID, but when I log the table this line is not included. Maybe this is the problem? I should maybe get a line in the table like:
[id]
   * nil

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Have you assigned floor value for elements to new floor id? Also try logging return values of insert statement, it might show where the error is.

I tested the logging of the last entered element in the old and the new SL, and in the old one I get a table in return, but not in the new one.

The script is copied from the old to the new.

[admin]

Do this, it will return an error if something is wrong:

Code:

res, err = db:insert('visobjects', element)
log(res, err)

As for nil keys: setting table key to nil deletes the key, accessing non-existing keys return nil.

[Trond Hoyem]

Do this, it will return an error if something is wrong:

Code:

res, err = db:insert('visobjects', element)
log(res, err)

As for nil keys: setting table key to nil deletes the key, accessing non-existing keys return nil.

OK, this did it. In my table I had a line for PIN code, and apparantly that is no longer a coloumn in the Visobjects table. It did work on the old HW, but not the new one. Has this changed in a way?

I removed the line with PIN code as I am not using it anyway, so now the script works.

[admin]

You've got it mixed up, pincode column was added recently not removed.

[Trond Hoyem]

You've got it mixed up, pincode column was added recently not removed.

Strange... The script worked in the old version, but not in the new one....

[admin]

What error were you getting exactly?

[Trond Hoyem]

The error code was
* arg: 1
* nil
* arg: 2
* string: LuaSQL: table visobjects has no column named pincode