Re: [Swarm-Support] problems with control panel buttons

[Steve Railsback]

Armano Srbljinović wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I am using SWARM tutorial as a basis for building my own SWARM 
> application (using java-based SWARM 2.1.1). I succeeded in building an 
> application that runs multiple experiments (the so-called 
> "ExperimentSwarm"). However, while doing this, I lost the capability of 
> controlling the "stop" and "next" buttons on the Control Panel. It seems 
> to me that calls to doTkEvents work from within my ObserverSwarm but do 
> not work from within my ModelSwarms. In other words, while running my 
> ModelSwarms, "stop" and "next" buttons on the Control Panel are 
> insensitive to pressing them. What's wrong?

(By the way, please avoid sending HTML messages to Swarm mail lists.)

I am not sure exactly what the problem is, but...

Here is some code that Glen Ropella wrote in our ExperimentSwarm, which 
opens a new, separate control panel for each experiment. It's in Obj-C 
but perhaps you can do the same thing in Java.

Steve Railsback

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- buildObjects
{

  [super buildObjects];

  [controlPanel setStateStopped];

  //
  // creates the controller for the subSwarm
  //
  subSwarmControl = [ActivityControl createBegin: [self getZone]];
  [subSwarmControl setDisplayName: "Model Run Controller"];
  subSwarmControl = [subSwarmControl createEnd];

...

  return self;
}


- buildModel {


  [subSwarm buildObjects];

  [subSwarm buildActions];

  [subSwarm activateIn: nil];

  [subSwarm setExperSwarm: self];

  // this if is an artefact of bad design for the ActivityControl class
  if (![probeLibrary isProbeMapDefinedFor: [ActivityControl class]]) {
    // now that the subSwarm is activated, attach the controller to it
    [subSwarmControl attachToActivity: [subSwarm getActivity]];
    CREATE_ARCHIVED_PROBE_DISPLAY (subSwarmControl);
  }
  else
    [subSwarmControl attachToActivity: [subSwarm getActivity]];

  return self;
}




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