Re: variable order in probe displays

[Sven Thommesen]

At 12:23 AM 12/18/96 -0700, Manor Askenazi wrote:
>
>   I seem to recall from a while back that someone wanted probe displays to
>   display their variables in the order specified by the programmer rather than
>   in a sorted (alphabetical) order.
>
>   Was there a solution to this problem, and if so, what was it?
>
>
>   --Sven
>
>If you run heatbugs you will see that, for example, the HeatbugModelSwarm
>probe shows the variables in alphabetical order but if you get the 
>CompleteProbe for HeatbugModelSwarm (by rightClicking on the classname),
>you will see that the variables (and methods) appear in the order they
>were declared.
>
>The inconsistency is due to an oversight on my part: any probemaps created
>by the system will follow the declaration order (a feature requested by
>the users) but ironically, the probemaps created by the users themselves
>get alphabetised. To get around that you will need to install the following
>simple patch. Replace ..whatever../swarm/src/swarmobject/EmptyProbeMap.m
>with:
>
> [code deleted]



        Went There
        Did That
        Bliss Descended

Thanks!
SVen