Combine

The Combine block waits for the two agents to arrive (in any order) at ports in1 and in2, creates a new agent, and outputs it. The new agent may be a “completely new” agent, that is, a newly constructed agent whose properties may depend on the original agents, or it may be one of the original agents, again, possibly modified. Once the two agents are ready, the combine operation takes zero time.

Combine may be used for a number of purposes. First, it can be used as a synchronization point to let one of the agents proceed only after another arrives. Second, you can use Combine to rejoin the agent with its copy created with the Split block. Third, Combine may be a simple alternative to Pickup when only one agent is picked up: for this to work, enter agent.addEntityToContents( agent2 ) in the On exit code.

If you select the resulting agent to be completely new, you can specify the type of this agent in the New agent (combined) parameter that will propagate to other library blocks in the flowchart. If you select the resulting agent as agent1 or agent2, and this agent is of your custom type, go to the Advanced section and specify this particular type as the Agent type (out) to propagate it in the process flowchart.

The original agent that arrives first may be animated at the specified position.

The resulting agent is

Defines how the exiting agent is produced:

Completely new — creates a new agent of the type specified in the field New agent (combined) below.
agent1 — equals the first original (the other agent is destroyed).
agent2 — equals the second original (the other agent is destroyed).

Get value: combineMode
Set value at runtime: set_combineMode(new value)
Valid values:
Combine.NEW — Completely new
Combine.ENTITY1 — agent1
Combine.ENTITY2 — agent2

New agent (combined)

[Visible if The resulting agent is: Completely new]
The type of the new agent (it can be an expression evaluated to obtain the new agent). Referred to below as T.

Value type: Agent
Local variables:
T1 agent1 — the original agent arrived at in1 port.
T2 agent2 — the original agent arrived at in2 port.

Change dimensions

If the option is selected (true), you will be able to change the dimensions of the agent combined by this block specifying the new Length, Width and Height values below.

Value type: boolean
Local variable: T agent — the agent.

Length

[Visible if the Change dimensions option is selected]
The new length of the combined agent.

Value type: double
Local variable: T agent — the agent.

Width

[Visible if the Change dimensions option is selected]
The new width of the combined agent.

Value type: double
Local variable: T agent — the agent.

Height

[Visible if the Change dimensions option is selected]
The new height of the combined agent.

Value type: double
Local variable: T agent — the agent.

Agent location (1)

The node or path where the original agent arrived at in1 and waiting for the other one is located.

Syntax: AnimationStaticLocationProvider entityLocation1

Agent location (2)

The node or path where the original agent arrived at in2 and waiting for the other one is located.

Syntax: AnimationStaticLocationProvider entityLocation2

Agent location (combined)

The node or path where the combined agent is located while it has not yet been consumed by the subsequent block.

Syntax: AnimationStaticLocationProvider entityLocation

Add combined agents to

Here you specify where the combined agents created by this block will be stored: in the default population of the top-level agent of the model or in a custom population (specified below in the Population property). The default population (Java collection of type AgentList) contained in the top-level agent can be accessed with the function getDefaultPopulation().

Syntax: boolean addToCustomPopulation

Population

[Visible if Add combined agents to: custom population]
The name of the agent population where the combined agents created by this block will be stored.

Value type: AgentList
Local variables:
T agent — the resulting agent that will exit.
T1 agent1 — the original agent arrived at in1 port.
T2 agent2 — the original agent arrived at in2 port.

Forced pushing

If the option is selected (true), when agent finishes processing at the block, it is instantly pushed further regardless the state of the succeeding block.
If the option is not selected, agent is not pushed, but pulled: only when the succeeding block is ready to accept one more agent, it requests the agent from this block, and only then this agent passes further.

Syntax: boolean pushProtocol
Default value: false

Restore agent location on exit

If the option is selected, after being animated in the Agent location (1, 2) shapes, the agents will return to their original location (node or path) where they were before entering this Combine block.

Syntax: boolean restoreEntityLocationOnExit
Default value: true

On enter 1

Code executed when an original agent enters the block at in1.

Local variable: T1 agent — the agent.

On enter 2

Code executed when an original agent enters the block at in2.

Local variable: T2 agent — the agent.

On exit

Code executed when the resulting agent exits the block.

Local variables:
T agent — the resulting agent that will exit.
T1 agent1 — the original agent arrived at in1 port.
T2 agent2 — the original agent arrived at in2 port.

in1

The input port.

in2

The input port.

out

The output port.

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