How can I read the completed results in OpenSees?

[kengawk]

Dears,

A problem I found is that the results from openSees always come up after I exit OpenSees.

For an example, I write an fundamental period of a structre with puts command or recorder.

How can I read the completed results in OpenSees right after the operations above?

Thanks!!

[fmk]

the file has to be closed before you can look at what is in it .. if wanting to read from a file during a running simulation you have to close it if using puts or specify the -closeOnWrite option if using a recorder .. just remember if reading from a file during the simulation that you must also close it after you finished reading from it.

[kengawk]

Thanks a lot, Frank!

It's a great help that may solve the problem ,which have troubled me for a quite long time!!
Yesterday I review the recorder commands and I saw that option but neglected it ...
This month I began to close the file and unset the variable immediately after the I/O operation .
Sometime I still met it for undefined reasons.

Your answer is of great help for me! I am sure!