Re: setRepeatInterval [os:all swarm:all lib:activity]

[Steve Emsley]

Yes I appreciate that I can hardwire an output scheduler that knows
what the simulated dayNumber is within the model and base output
events on that. In  fact, that's what I have been doing. I suppose my
question is based on my adviser'd love of bells and whistles. My
graphicsSwarm is controlled by action:schedule pairs:

  [hourActions createActionTo: self           message: M(_updateHour_)];
  [hourSchedule setRepeatInterval: hourFrequency];

  [dayActions createActionTo: self           message: M(_updateDay_)];
  [daySchedule setRepeatInterval: dayFrequency];

and so on.

To hardwire updating say an active graph from deep within a model
rather than at the GraphicSwarm level seems to go against swarm
scheduling ideology.

Can I access the internal counters that hourSchedule and daySchedule
use. i.e. what is the equivalent syntax for getCurrentTime() but
applied to those objects (I've tried [daySchedule getCurrentTime] and
know that it doesn't work quite so simply).

If I can do that is there an equivalent setCurrentTime or would the
solution involve dropping the current, say, hourSchedule and
recreating it with an amended repeatInterval and start time.

Cheers,
Steve.
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