} //in this method i loop inside a specific lane and check for availability. I check starting from the 3rd pump per lane to avoid conjunction between the cars, while keeping a counter of how many times I looped throught the lane. Depending on the loop counter, i check the pumps in front of every every available pump i find. If a pump is available and all the other pumps in the same lane, with lower ID are also available, then I save the pump in the chosen pump vessel
public void ManagePumps(float time)//this is where I update my pumps by assigning cars to free pumps, removing the cars assigned from the active list and more
{
VehGenerator.Update(time, activeVeh); //call the vehicle generator update method
Pump chosenPump = GetChosenPump(myListOfPumps); //call the method that finds the correct pump that needs to be assigned to a vehicle.
if (activeVeh.Count > 0) //this only happens if cars are already in the queue waiting to be serviced
{
if (chosenPump != null) //check if chosenPump method found a pump ready
{
//Assign the first vehicle of the activeVeh list of veh, to the chosen pump.
myListOfPumps[chosenPump.PumpID].CurVehServed = activeVeh[0];
myListOfPumps[chosenPump.PumpID].CurVehServed.getFuelingTimer(chosenPump);//set vehicles fueling timer
//set vehicle's properties to match its current state
myListOfPumps[chosenPump.PumpID].CurVehServed.IsVehBeingServed = true;
myListOfPumps[chosenPump.PumpID].PumpState = false;
myListOfPumps[chosenPump.PumpID].CurVehServed.MyPump = chosenPump; //assign the chosen pump to the vehicle
activeVeh.Remove(activeVeh[0]); //remove the vehicle from the list of activeVehicles
chosenPump = null; //empty the chosen pump vessel
}
}
}
} // in this method I loop through the 3 lanes, going for the 1rst to the 3rd. I return a pump obj, which in case no pump is free, returns null
public static Pump checkLane(int pumpNum, List <Pump> listOfPumps)
{
bool keepgoing = true;
Pump chosenPump = null;
int laneMaxStart = pumpNum;
int counter = 0;
do
{
if (listOfPumps[pumpNum].PumpState == true)
{
if (counter == 0)
{
if (listOfPumps[pumpNum - 1].PumpState && listOfPumps[pumpNum - 2].PumpState)
{
chosenPump = listOfPumps[pumpNum];
keepgoing = false;
}
}
else if (counter == 1)
{
if (listOfPumps[pumpNum - 1].PumpState)
{
chosenPump = listOfPumps[pumpNum];
keepgoing = false;
}
}
else if (counter == 2)
{
chosenPump = listOfPumps[pumpNum];
keepgoing = false;
}
}
pumpNum -= 1;
counter += 1;
}while (counter < 3 && keepgoing == true);
return(chosenPump);
} //in this method i loop inside a specific lane and check for availability. I check starting from the 3rd pump per lane to avoid conjunction between the cars, while keeping a counter of how many times I looped throught the lane. Depending on the loop counter, i check the pumps in front of every every available pump i find. If a pump is available and all the other pumps in the same lane, with lower ID are also available, then I save the pump in the chosen pump vessel
}//filling up the pumps list, just by creating new pumps with state set to true and throwing in a list
//In the method bellow, start looking from the first lane(max pump id is 3 for the first),
//if no pump available go to the second lane, then third.
//If no pump is found we return null. We stop looking either when chosenPump is not empty
//or when we are out of lanes to check
//(In reverse, we need lanes <=9 AND the boolean to be false to keep looping)
public Pump GetChosenPump(List <Pump> myListOfPumps)
{
Pump chosenPump = null;
int laneCounter = 2;
bool foundPump = false;
do
{
chosenPump = checkLane(laneCounter, myListOfPumps);
if (chosenPump == null)
{
laneCounter = laneCounter + 3;
foundPump = false;
}
if (chosenPump != null)
{
foundPump = true;
}
}while (foundPump == false && laneCounter <= 9);
return(chosenPump);
} // in this method I loop through the 3 lanes, going for the 1rst to the 3rd. I return a pump obj, which in case no pump is free, returns null
} //returns agitation timer, random between to numbers
public void getFuelingTimer(Pump p) //this methods returns the fueling timer of a vehicle
{
this.fillingTimer = (TankMax - TankOnArrival) / p.DispenceCap;
}
