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I have a table with the following definition (defined in the GUI) :TABLE CPL_2035_Summary :TITLE 2035 Metrics :PRINT-EVERY 5 :X-MIN 2025 :X-MAX 2050 :FONT Arial Unicode MS|12||0-0-0 :VAR CPL Carbon Tax Rate 2019[Sectors] :DATASET :VAR Output Total CH4 Emissions :DATASET :VAR Output Total CO2e Emissi...

I was wondering about messing with scroll/zoom settings but I then thought that "the current system messes with it already." I might be wrong though. If you're working in a model that has 20 views that are all Very Big at 100% (not fit on a screen), doesn't the current F3 Find behavior cha...

I often use Find and F3 to find again. That is, I want to see when a variable is used and it is often on multiple views. The current behavior of Vensim is to change the view and highlight the variable *somewhere* on the screen. I spend the next few second trying to find the variable. Often it is in ...

Passing on information relevant for Vensim users: SDEverywhere, a tool for MDL files to automate testing and publish web apps, got a big update in August 2024. [https://sdeverywhere.org] One of the biggest additions is an improved ease of installation and use by removing the need for Emscripten. The...

ReadSDR is a good suggestion. An alternative that is likely more complicated would be to use SDEverywhere [https://sdeverywhere.org] to convert to C code. I'm pretty sure you can call C code from R. Or SDEverywhere also has the ability to run models from a command line (Terminal), which you might be...

Yes, this one is definitely weird. I don't want to make this too broad of an issue, but the windowing on macOS has always been a bit whacky. Something that has been raised in the past (either conversation or maybe another forum thread) is that "focus" isn't handled as expected on the platf...

We were editing CIN files and CMD files in Visual Studio Code and, after adding some comments in the CIN file, were wondering about syntax coloring. Has anyone developed a VSCode extension and/or grammars or anything related to syntax coloring for Vensim and/or SD-related files (e.g., XMILE)? More i...

Another bit of strange behavior with two displays, but not exactly related to the disappearing window: I'm working on an external monitor with my laptop open (as opposed to two external displays with laptop closed, as above). The main Vensim window is on the external display. When I select a variabl...

I'm working with two displays. To take advantage of the screen real estate, I decided undock the Control Panel window and move it to the second display. I used the following steps: 1. Use the mouse to grab the top part of the docked palette and started dragging. 2. As soon as I passed into the secon...

Agree - this looks really useful!

Is there any reason to not run MC all the time, even if you're not doing sensitivity runs? And, assuming it is fine, I'm kinda wondering why there are two builds of Vensim then. Will you just be releasing the MC version as plain "Vensim" in the future? (<---leading question....). ;-) I'm a...

I've installed the newer build that you sent me but I still can't get VDF2XLSX to work. I can simulate a scenario again (which was broken a few posts earlier in this thread).

Can you send me a script in which VDF2XLSX works on macOS?

(Hope your time away was for fun!)

I'm happy to help pick this up when you're ready. Just let me know what to test.

Any update on this? Anything else I can do to test?

This morning even my script to run a scenario won't work, with an error stating it can't find the model file. Appreciate your help.

Right now the test is simply the single line script that was suggested. 1. VensimDSS is closed. 2. In Terminal, I call the CMD script using the Vensim app, calling it with: [code] /Applications/VensimDSS.app/Contents/MacOS/VensimDSS "/full/path/in/quotes/script.cmd" [/code] 3. Vensim opens...

Does this work on Windows? Is this a macOS problem? We'd love to have a workflow that runs the model and exports the data, but can't get by this step.

I tried removing the LST file from the line and now the error message says, "Unable to open BAU.vdfx to read data." Could it be some path issue?

Aside: Is there a way to add comments to CMD files? "#" at the beginning of a line or something like that? This would be a nice feature, to comment code and/or comment command lines.

I ran that single line in a new CMD file. Vensim opened with an error dialog what said, "Unable to open SaveList.lst to read variable names."

The LST file is in the same directory as the CMD, MDL, and VDFX files.

Should the following script work to export to XLSX? When I call it Vensim opens but then quickly closes. All the files are in the same directory. A XLSX file with the same name does already exist (and I'd like this script to always replace it). [code] SPECIAL>NOINTERACTION MENU>VDF2XLSX|BAU.vdfx|BAU...

Btw, I (still) feel that a user should be able to close all the model windows in Vensim macOS. When I close the model I'm currently working on (single model open), currently a new model window is opened. I can't think of any other app on macOS what works like that. In Word and Safari, etc., I can cl...

Updated to 10.1.5.

This seems fixed. Thank you.

Updated to 10.1.5.

This is still a problem.

I have the Settings "Close active model on New/Open" turned off. But, when I double-click on a second MDL file it replaces the currently opened model that I'm working on. Expected behavior would be to open a new window with the second model, given the current Setting choice. Vensim 10.1.2 ...