Dymola getExperiment() access

Question

Does anyone know how to access specific outputs of the Dymola built-in function getExperiment();? Unfortunately it only returns the Real scalar StartTime. The function seems to be defined as follows:

function getExperiment "Get current experiment setting"
  output  Real StartTime  := 0.0 "Start of simulation";
  output  Real StopTime  := 1.0 "End of simulation";
  output  Integer NumberOfIntervals  := 0 "Number of output points";
  output  Real OutputInterval  := 0.0 "Distance between output points";
  output  String Algorithm  := "" "Integration method";
  output  Real Tolerance  := 0.0001 "Tolerance of integration";
  output  Real FixedStepSize  := 0.0 "Fixed step size for Euler";
end getExperiment;

My test model is:

model GetExpTest
  Real staTime;
  Real outInterval;
equation 
  (staTime,outInterval)=receiveInfo();
end GetExpTest;code here

With the function:

function receiveInfo
  output Real startT;
  output Real outputInterv;
algorithm 
  (startT,,,outputInterv,,,):=getExperiment();
end receiveInfo;

And the error message I get is:

Compiling and linking the model (Visual C++).

dsmodel.c dsmodel.c(32) : error C2079: 'dummy_mult_' uses undefined struct 'getExperiment_struct' dsmodel.c(32) : warning C4013: 'getExperiment' undefined; assuming extern returning int dsmodel.c(33) : error C2224: left of '.StartTime0_0_0member' must have struct/union type dsmodel.c(34) : error C2224: left of '.OutputInterval0_0_0member' must have struct/union type

Error generating Dymosim.

Thank you in Advance for help!

Answer 1

If I do: getExperiment(), the following is returned:

= 0.0, 1.0, 500, 0.0, "dassl", 0.0001, 0.0

So you can access the values using a regular assignment taking multiple outputs. For example:

(StartTime,,NumberOfIntervals) := getExperiment()

Which returns:

Declaring variable: Real StartTime ;
Declaring variable: Integer NumberOfIntervals ;
StartTime
 = 0.0
NumberOfIntervals
 = 500