RE: Reporter bug in SimpleSwamBug3

[Christopher J. Mackie]

Hi Stacy;  There are others on the list more competent than I am at this
stuff, but since I did what you're doing not too long ago, I'll take a stab
at it.

You can of course extend the 'ReporterBug' features to all bugs--but you
probably don't want to.  Having each bug report to the console dramatically
slows down your application.  The ReporterBug is an interim construct, used
by the tutorial to give you some runtime feedback during the stages before
you learn how to extract information from the model efficiently.

When you get to the 'ObserverBug' examples, you'll discover a better way
(the 'standard' Swarm way) to accomplish essentially the same thing, using
probes and graphs.  The ObserverBug code also contains and documents the
concepts necessary to make every bug a freelance journalist, if you find
that's still what you want to do.  So keep plugging away, and the answers
will come.

--Chris Mackie


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Stacy Oerder
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:53 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Reporter bug in SimpleSwamBug3


Hi

I'm new to Swarm and still working through the examples. I'm busy
working through the swarmapps provided with Swarm-2.1.1 and am looking
into the simpleSwarmBug3 application and more specifically at the
reporterbug that is defined. My question pertains to the reporting of
the bug,  namely that I would like to have each bug created report on
their progress through the world and the application only has one
reporter bug. Is it possible to extend the reporting to every single
bug. Any suggestions in this regard would be appreciated.

Thanks
Stacy Oerder

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