After hours of debugging and testing. I figured out there is no better solution than the described in the question.
Also, I've noticed the time performance of using mdlind
for getting the machine position in the arrays and change the var
array instead of calling change_var
is significantly better when developing machine models in fortran.
Here, I write some examples, where:
bus_mac
is the bus number where the machine is. id_mac
is the id of the machine inside the bus. l_mac
is the position of the machine in the var
array. n_val
is the new value to set to the position, for example, l_mac+2
of the var
array.
Way 1 - Better performance: only fortran
call mdlind(bus_mac, id_mac, 'GEN', 'VAR', l_mac, ierr)
var(l_mac+2) = n_val
Way 2 - Secure and API use: fortran
call mdlind(bus_mac, id_mac, 'GEN', 'VAR', l_mac, ierr)
call change_var(l_mac+2, n_val, ierr)
Way 2 - Secure and API use: python
ierr, l_val= psspy.mdlind(bus_mac, id_mac, 'GEN', 'VAR')
ierr = psspy.change_var(l_mac+2, n_val)