Glad it worked.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:28 AM George Edwards <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks again! The link you sent had the solution. The thing is, I have
> looked at the link time and time again even before you sent it to me and
> the problem lies in reading between the lines because the documentation is
> not very clear. It would be nice if there were examples given inside the
> link. I knew from experience that doing multiplicity: '4' works, if I
> desired 4 inputs for example, but this was static and I wanted it to be
> flexible, so one could set that value inside the GRC block. From the
> documentation: multiplicity: ${ .... }, I thought ${...} was just a
> placeholder for me to replace it with the number I wanted ('4' in example
> above). Now, I understand how to use ${ .... } to pass in parameter
> values. I used multiplicity: ${n_inputs} and it worked beautifully!
>
> Thanks again for the help!
>
> Regards,
> George
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:19 PM Jeff Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> See https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/YAML_GRC.
>>
>> Also, take a look at yml files for existing blocks that have a variable
>> number of inputs. For example, the Add block.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:09 PM George Edwards <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a problem writing the yml file for a variable number of inputs
>>> to my GRC block. In the OOT Python file, a parameter called n_input is
>>> passed into the GRC block and I was hoping it would be accessible in the yml
>>> file. In the yml file I wrote:
>>> parameters:
>>> - id: n_inputs
>>> label: Number of Inputs
>>> dtype: int
>>> default: 3
>>>
>>> inputs:
>>> - domain: stream
>>> dtype: complex
>>> multiplicity: n_inputs
>>>
>>> The program fails with message: invalid literal for int() with base 10.
>>> Then, I tried multiplicity with: int(n_inputs) and 'n_input' which all
>>> failed. How can I fix this, because if I were to specify a static value for
>>> example: multiplicity: '5', it works and provides a block with 5 inputs.
>>>
>>> I will appreciate any help offered!
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>
