Quick Question on “Private Function”

[linhongbin]

Hi,

I found that the Behavior Dash Board of Flexbe APP have a configuration option called "Private Function", but it is not available.

It seems it can add or drop the new function to the configuration in the tutorial.

And I am curious about what that configuration is used for? It is not discussed in tutorial.

[pschillinger]

This is indeed not yet covered in the tutorials. Without going much into detail here, every behavior has a section in the source code marked with:

# Private functions can be added inside the following tags
# [MANUAL_FUNC]

# [/MANUAL_FUNC]

This section can be edited manually, i.e., directly in the source code, to define additional functions. These functions can be passed to states which accept functions as parameters, e.g., a CalculationState or a DecisionState. For easy reference, these functions are listed in the Dashboard.

Since the idea is that the user can do whatever they want in this section of the code, parsing is kept to a minimum and no code is generated to overwrite this part. This is why it appears as read-only.