Re: Control Trnsys by command line

[Michaël Kummert <kummert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jochen,

> is there a way to avoid the display of the 'simulation completed' dialog
> after trnsys has finished simulating? I would like to do multiple
> simulations in a kind of batch mode in VB by executing somthing like
>
> Shell ("C:/trnsys15/trnsys fileXYZ.dck").
>
> This works fine, but I have to confirm the mentioned dialog before I'm able
> to work with the result files. That is quite tideous.
>
> Of course there are some system near solutions like getting handle of the
> dialog window and emulating the OK click, but my hope is that there is a
> switch somewhere in a configuration file that tells trnsys to finish
> simulating silently. I could not find something usefull in the manual
> concerning this problem, but maybe someone has a good idea?

I guess you will get many answers on that one, with the delay on the 
mailing list...
You can use the "/n" switch:
Shell ("C:/trnsys15/trnsys fileXYZ.dck /n")

This will get rid of the yes/no dialog box, but your simulation will 
still stop if you have errors. I sent an email about some possible 
techniques to prevent the "errors" box to stop batch jobs a while ago:

http://sel.me.wisc.edu/trnsys/mailinglist/archive2003/msg00518.html

But I am sure you will find something even fancier than that in VB...

Kind regards,

Michaël

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