Re: [Q] Noddy scheduling question

[Ken Cline]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> >>>>> "KC" == Ken Cline <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> KC> There could be an extension of the Schedule protocol that
> KC> accepts an "ActionSequence", e.g.
> KC>  @protocol ScheduleSequel <Schedule>
> KC>    USING
> KC>    -during: (id <ActionSequence>) seq createAction: (id <ActionType>) act;
> KC>      ...
> KC>  @end
> 
> How is this different from activateIn:?

Ummmm... I guess I was thinking the it would be used more
like the existing `at:createAction:' methods that Schedule
provides.  For example, if you wanted to schedule an action
that would start at time 10 and repeat until the end of the
simulation then the code would look like:
     ...
  seq = [ SimpleActionSequence createBegin: [self getZone] ];
  [ seq setStart: 10 end: TimeMax frequency: 1 ];
  seq = [ seq createEnd ];
     ...
  [ modelSchedule during: seq createActionForEach: agents
                                  message: M(recordState) ];

and only the `modelSchedule' would need to be activated.
Does that make sense?  Did I misunderstand you question?

BTW, I only picked the keyword `during' because the 
arguments to the `at' keyword always specify particular
(absolute or relative) time instant instead of a general
time interval.


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