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[Doug Donalson]

Hi Guys,

   I just put together my batch swarm addition and I came up with a
couple
of problems/solutions.  To save file space I changes the double fprint
so that it didn't print 10,000 zeros.  (All right, a slight
exaggeration.)

It occured to me that it would be nice if the Active Graph file output
matched
the type of the calling function.  I thought about this briefly but the
solution is
not simple.  Maybe I'll work on it later.

A wish higher on the list is an fflush() on the file buffer.  This gives
the simulatee
a window into the progress of the sim when not using graphics.  Right
now
at least to 10K the buffer doesn't dump until simulation termination.
I stuck a fflush() in as seen below but got a very supprising result.
All the displays started flashing at a high rate and the program
basically
quit running.  Now I have used fflush() in many other programs, and a
high
calling rate might slow the program down, but never anything like this.

Any suggestions?  (I know, a little knowledge is dangerous.)

Cheers,

  D3


- putDouble: (double)aDouble
{
  //fprintf(theFile, "%+24.16e", aDouble);
  fprintf(theFile, "%5.3f", aDouble);
  //fflush(theFile);
  return self;
}



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