Re: multiple user-defined type

[David Bradley <bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Filippo,
  Yes, you can put more than one instance of a user written type into a 
project provided that you make use of something called the "S-Array."  What 
happens when you have two instances of the same Type in your project is 
that TRNSYS in fact executes the same piece of code twice, once with one 
set of information, then again with another set of information. The TRNSYS 
kernal takes care of sending the correct XIN( ), PAR( ), and OUT( ) values 
to each UNIT (instance) of the Type. It sounds as though your Type is 
getting confused between the two sets of information. A couple of common 
causes are that your Type does not always read in its inputs and 
recalculate all of its outputs at each iteration or that your Type does not 
reread its parameters if the UNIT number (INFO(2) ) has changed. There are 
a number of other possible causes, especially ones if your Type is counting 
the number of iterations in a given time step. If this is the case then you 
should make use of the s-array, which is a global array accessible through 
the /STORE/ common block and which allows you to store values calculated by 
a Type between iterations and between time steps as appropriate. More 
information on how to use the s-array is presented in Chapter 3 of the main 
TRNSYS manual. For more information on how to correctly write a Type (and 
specifically how to notice whether the UNIT number has changed), I would 
suggest that you have a look at the code for Type6 as it is relatively 
simple and easy to follow.
Kind regards,
  David

At 11:59 AM 3/18/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> Hello TRNSYS,
>
> We need to use more than once a user-defined type into the same project.
> We placed two of them, supposedly to give different outputs, but those 
> gave both the same
> output of the first type we placed.
> Is it possible to place several units of the same user-defined type into 
> the same project
> and have them working properly?
> What shall we do?
>
> Thanks
> Filippo
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Filippo

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