Ilogic code

[michelouwerkerk]

I proberbly make a smal mistake in my code can someone correct me and explain what i do wrong here.

We have two type of pumps a big one and smal one ( Groot & Klein in dutch )

I have an form where i can enter Groot or Klein with an Drop down menu this works fine!

Now i need the shaft of the pump to extend 10mm when its a small pump.

I used the Part from the content center and i also made it extend en retract whenever the pump gets longer or shorter, this also works fine! Now i need to ad an aditional 10mm when the form is set to "short" 

The parameter "Aslengte:" = parameter "Length:" + 185 + 62

"Length:" is filled in on the form

I do this because i wil remember how much the shaft goes into the head and the pump itself.

[michelouwerkerk]

I also tryd this: 

If Pomp: "Groot" Then Parameter("EN 10060 - 35", "B_L") = AslengteGroot:
End If

If Pomp: "Klein" Then Parameter("EN 10060 - 35", "B_L") = AslengteKlein:
End If

[Mathias_CompC · Accepted solution]

First I got quite confused by the presence of ':' in your code, then I realized you have it in the name of your parameter.
Have you tried something along the lines of:

If Parameter("Pomp:") = "Groot" Then
	Parameter("EN 10060 - 35", "B_L") = Parameter("Length:") + 247
Else
	Parameter("EN 10060 - 35", "B_L") = Parameter("Length:") + 257
End If

[michelouwerkerk]

thankyou, it worked! 

AslengteGroot:

because this was blue i already tought i had the parameter selected. 

[Mathias_CompC]

Happy to help. 🙂

You sort-of had a reference to the parameter, just not explicitly the value of it.

As a rule-of-thumb, anything not a-Z or '_' is wibbly-wobbly to reference as anything other than a string (" here "). And ':' especially, since something like 

Label1:
'do stuff
Label2:
'OtherStuff

is actually  a way to navigate code.

So, even if you could/would reference "AslengteGroot:" that way, if you ever tried assigning it's value like that, and your settings and syntax was just right, it would be treated as a label (an address in the code) and your result would be more funny than correct.