Capability Overview

This is an overview of Planimate's capabilities.

Data Input and Import

How information can get into a model.

• Attribute, Cell and Table Views
• Dials
• SQL Query using ODBC
• Interactive Graph Views
• Portal and Panel Clicks and Drags
• Paint Object Clicks
• CSV/TAB delimited file read
• DataSet2 file read
• XML packet via TCP/IP or UDP
• Command line options
• Tables/Lists returned from a DLL call
• Planimate dotNET API
• Function keypress broadcasts
• HTTP request received by internal server
• Clipboard

Data Output and Export

How information can get out of a model

• Attribute, Cell and Table Views
• Table Graph Views
• Object state icons
• Queue and Dispatchers
• Paint Objects
• Item animation on flows
• Item animation on a spatial link or track
• Pipe link
• File write (CSV/TAB delimited)
• Dataset2 file write
• SQL statement over ODBC
• XML packet over TCP/IP or UDP
• HTTP request to an external server
• Data passed to a called DLL
• Planimate dotNET API
• Printing BMP
• Data written to the system clipboard
• Parameters passed to a called/spawned program
  

Intra-model Communication

How one part of a model can affect another part

• Item flows
• Portal Hierarchy
• Attributes, Tables and Lists
• Messages
• Broadcasts
• Wormholes
• Track, Spatial and Pipe links
• A combination of the input and output mechanisms above