Re: added agents, and right-button probe

[Daniel Calhoun]

Thanks.  Obviously, it works.

-- dc

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> From: Paul Johnson <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: added agents, and right-button probe
> Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 7:49 AM
> 
> Daniel Calhoun wrote:
> > 
> > Since my substantive problem is ethnogenesis, a practical problem
follows:
> > 
> > When I add a new Agent to an AgentList, how do I make sure that it gets
> > included in the update and the sensitivity to right-button probe that
had
> > been established for the original AgentList?
> > 
> >                   ==================================
> 
> In your observer swarm, check where you have the button click sent.  IN
> many swarm apps, it is a Grid2d object that receives the message you
> indicated in the observer.  The Grid2d only knows where the agents are
> if the agents have a command in them that puts them in the grid.  In
> heatbugs, it is in the step method, and each bug first puts a nil where
> it is, then looks for a new spot, and when it finds one, it tells the
> grid something like (I recall) [world putObject: self AtX: x Y: y]. 
> When the Grid2d receies the right click at that (x,y), it will check to
> see if an agent has registered itself there, and give you the probe,
> just as it would for the old agents.
> 
> -- 
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