Check if an object is already connected to a conveyor

[guiroehe]

Hello,

how one can check if an object is already connected to a conveyor to avoid duplicating port connections between them?

As the conveyor can have multiple entry or exit transfers, and the transfers are separated objects, testing the list of conveyor points exhaustively is very inefficient.

Thank you.

[xavier_low]

You can iterate over the object's outObjects and get the class object:

Object processor = Model.find("Processor1");
int isConnected = 0;

for(int i = 1; i <= processor.outObjects.length; i++) {
	Object obj = processor.outObjects[i];
	if (classobject(obj).name == "EntryTransfer")
		isConnected = 1;
}

if (!isConnected) 
	// Connect object to conveyor
	contextdragconnection(processor, Model.find("StraightConveyor1"), "A");

[guiroehe]

Hi, @xavier_low ,

thank you. However this is what I mentioned on my question that is highly inefficient. It works fine for a few conveyors, not for large scale problems.

Thank you anyway.