Re: [Swarm-Support] creating agents using a schedule

[Paul Johnson]

Yes, you can create and kill agents whenever you want. No need to limit 
yourself to buildObjects method.  If I were you, I'd write a method

Use a list and schedule agents in there to step, and then you can add a 
method that puts more agents in your list, and scheule that.

- addAgents
{
    int N= 15;
    int i;
    for (i=0; i<N; i++)
      {
         Heatbug * aBug = [blah blah];
         [listOfBugs addLast: aBug];
       }
  return self;
}

Then when you want more agents, arrange to call that.


Mervin Chan wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am using swarm with JAVA. I have a question with regard to creating 
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> I understand that I can only create agents within buildobjects().
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> As such, agents are created before the simulation is run. Is it possible 
> to insert into the schedule to allow the creation of agents at  
> pre-defined (or random) timesteps. Instead of pre-defining all my agents 
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> Ie:  for every X timesteps, create Y number of agents. Do until 
> Simulation end.
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