OMEdit no longer shows the 3D Animation windows

[Francesco Casella]

Steps to reproduce:

• Start OMEdit
• Open Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Examples.DoublePendulum
• Click on Simulate with Animation

The simulation runs correctly, but no animation window shows up, as explained in the ​documentation. One needs to open a new animation window, and load the simulation results manually.

Please restore this functionality in time for the 1.14.0 release.

[Adeel Asghar]

I can't reproduce this. It works as expected for me.

[Francesco Casella]

Replying to adeas31:

I can't reproduce this. It works as expected for me.

I have "Tools|Options|Simulation|Switch to plotting perspective" disabled.

If I enable it, it works. If I disable it, when I manually switch to the plotting perspective, the animation is not loaded automatically.

[Adeel Asghar]

Yes that is correct behavior. We don't have any queue where we store the active simulation. So it can't load the animation when you switch later manually. Enable switch to plotting perspective and simulate again.

[Francesco Casella]

Replying to adeas31:

Yes that is correct behavior.

That depends on your definition of correct :)

From a user's perspective, if I push a "Simulate with animation" button, I expect to see the animation when I look for it the right place, i.e., the plotting perspective. Why should the "Switch to plotting perspective after simulation" flag be relevant with respect to that? That flags just means that I don't have to manually switch the perspective, it shouldn't have anything to do with loading the results from the .mat file.

We don't have any queue where we store the active simulation.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this.

Even if the "Switch to plotting perspective" option is disabled, if I run a simulation and then later switch to the plotting perspective, I find the results already loaded in the variables browswer, which means the .mat file was actually loaded in the variables browser when the simulation was run. Can't we just do the same for the animation view?

[Adeel Asghar]

From a user's perspective, if I push a "Simulate with animation" button, I expect to see the animation when I look for it the right place, i.e., the plotting perspective. Why should the "Switch to plotting perspective after simulation" flag be relevant with respect to that? That flags just means that I don't have to manually switch the perspective, it shouldn't have anything to do with loading the results from the .mat file.

Yeah that is right. I see what you mean. I will try to fix it real quick!

[Francesco Casella]

Thank Adeel! :)

[Adeel Asghar]

Fixed in 5e27012/OpenModelica.