Re: Displaying Internal State

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "DA" == David Aliaga <address@hidden> writes:

DA> The agents (Swarm objects) have some internal state that can not
DA> be displayed in a simple probe (for example a 2-D array or another
DA> Swarm object).  So I want to make a method that shows the internal
DA> state.

See below for an example.

DA> what means "GUI_EVENT_ASYNC()"

It tells the GUI to process whatever work it has queued up.
For example, when you press a button that event gets queued and sits (in
an internal Tk data structure) until the GUI gets told to process its
queued events.  GUI_EVENT_ASYNC is one way to do that.  

The usual way in Swarm to process queued GUI work is to call -doTkEvents,
a method you get with a GUISwarm.  However, in simple, self-contained
examples, it is often not necessary to have a GUISwarm to make the
point, so GUI_EVENT_ASYNC is a one-line way to get the same thing.

DA> Is it ok to put graphs in the methods of a SwarmObject?  How?

Yes, there are not contextual constraints; just do it.

Here's an example of creating a Canvas via a probe to visualize a 2d
array of numbers.  Right-click on "Controller" and then click on 
`createCanvas'.  Finally, click on `increment'.

#import <simtools.h> // initSwarm
#import <simtoolsgui/GUISwarm.h>
#import <gui.h> // Canvas, TextItem
#import <defobj/Create.h> // CreateDrop
#include <misc.h> // sprintf
#import <defobj/defalloc.h> // getZone

#define CANVAS_HEIGHT 400
#define CANVAS_WIDTH 600

#define ROWS 5
#define COLS 10

@interface Controller: GUISwarm
{
  int internalState[ROWS][COLS];

  id <Canvas> canvas;
  id <TextItem> textItems[ROWS][COLS];
}
- buildObjects;
- (void)update;
- (void)createCanvas;
- (void)increment;
@end

@implementation Controller

+ create: aZone
{
  Controller *controller = [super create: aZone];

  SET_WINDOW_GEOMETRY_RECORD_NAME (controller);

  return controller;
}

- (void)update
{
  unsigned ri, ci;

  for (ri = 0; ri < ROWS; ri++)
    for (ci = 0; ci < COLS; ci++)
      {
        id textItem;
        char buf[DSIZE (int) + 1];
        
        if (textItems[ri][ci])
          [textItems[ri][ci] drop];

        textItem = [TextItem createBegin: getZone (self)];
        [textItem setCanvas: canvas];
        [textItem setX: ci * (CANVAS_WIDTH - 30) / COLS + 30 Y: 50 + ri * 80];
        
        sprintf (buf, "%u", internalState[ri][ci]);
        [textItem setText: buf];
        textItems[ri][ci] = [textItem createEnd];
      }
}

- buildObjects
{
  unsigned ri, ci;

  [super buildObjects];
  CREATE_ARCHIVED_PROBE_DISPLAY (self);

  for (ri = 0; ri < ROWS; ri++)
    for (ci = 0; ci < COLS; ci++)
      {
        internalState[ri][ci] = (ri + 1) * (ci + 1);
        textItems[ri][ci] = nil;
      }
  return self;
}

- (void)createCanvas
{
  unsigned ri, ci;

  canvas = [Canvas createBegin: getZone (self)];

  [canvas setWindowGeometryRecordName: "internalStateCanvas"];
  canvas = [canvas createEnd];
  [canvas setWidth: CANVAS_WIDTH Height: CANVAS_HEIGHT];
  [canvas setWindowTitle: "internalState"];
  [canvas pack];

  [self update];
}

- (void)increment
{
  unsigned ri, ci;

  for (ri = 0; ri < ROWS; ri++)
    for (ci = 0; ci < COLS; ci++)
      internalState[ri][ci]++;
  [self update];
}

@end

int
main (int argc, const char **argv)
{
  id controller;
  initSwarm (argc, argv);

  controller = [Controller create: globalZone];
  [controller buildObjects];
  [controller buildActions];
  [controller activateIn: nil];
  [controller go];
}

/*
Local Variables:
compile-command: "$SWARMHOME/bin/libtool-swarm --mode=link gcc 
-DAPPNAME=probeDemo2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -o probeDemo2 -g -Wno-import 
-I$SWARMHOME/include/swarm -L$SWARMHOME/lib/swarm probeDemo2.m -lswarm -lobjc"
End:
*/

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