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Reusable Templates

Instead of creating text boxes everytime for the displaying the name of the blocks, I thought of creating a reusable template for the same. Following is what I created

partial block BlockTemplate
  annotation(Icon(coordinateSystem(extent = {{-100,-100},{100,100}}, preserveAspectRatio = true, initialScale = 0.1, grid = {2,2}), graphics = {Text(origin = {-0.366361,-0.51471}, lineColor = {0,0,255}, extent = {{-150,150},{150,110}}, textString = "%name"),Text(origin = {0,-260}, lineColor = {0,0,255}, extent = {{-150,150},{150,110}}, textString = "%name")}));
end BlockTemplate;

Then I imported this in another block by using

extends BlockTemplate

Turns out that I get the %name displayed on top of the block but I cannot edit it.

What should be done so that I am able to edit it?

Thanks in advance, MSK

Solution

  • OK then you can do it like this,

    Block A

    block A
  annotation (Icon(coordinateSystem(preserveAspectRatio=false, extent={{-100,-100}, {100,100}}), graphics={Text(extent={{-52,50},{62,-20}}, lineColor={0,0,255}, textString="%name")}));
end A;

    Block B

    block B
  extends A;
end B;

    Block C

    block C
  B abc annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{-60,20},{-40,40}})));
end C;