Re: [TRNSYS-users] Command line switches

[David Bradley <bradley@tess-inc.com>]

Todd,
  As far as I am aware, the /N switch is the only one available. My 
apologies for the commercialism, but I might also point out that there is a 
program called TRNOPT available in the TESS Optimization Library that 
integrates and automates the connection of TRNSYS with GenOpt. TRNOPT's 
front end scans TRNSYS input files and allows you to select which variables 
you would like to use in your optimization. It then asks you to put limits 
on the values that those variables can have and asks you to select either 
the output of any component in your simulation or the result of an equation 
that GenOpt will use as the basis of its minimization. Lastly it allows you 
to choose which optimization method you want to use (Hook-Jeeves, etc.). 
Once you launch your optimization, TRNOPT inserts a new Type into a copy of 
your input file; this printer prepares all of the information that GenOpt 
needs in order to control the series of simulations that it performs. 
Please let me know if you would like some more information.
Cheers,
  David

At 07:19 PM 3/14/2005, Todd Houstein wrote:
> I am using GENOPT to run optimizations of my TRNSYS projects. I am already
> using the /N command line switch so that the <continue> button does not need
> to be clicked after each simulation, however I cannot use my computer for
> anything else while the optimization is running because each time TRNExe.exe
> is called it takes focus (i.e. becomes the active window). Is there a
> command line switch that runs TRNExe.exe in the background??
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Todd Houstein
> Hydrogen & Allied Renewable Technologies (HART) research team
> School of Engineering
> University of Tasmania
> +61 3 6226 2094
>
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