[Swarm-Support] Followup: found work-around for missing ~/swarmarchiver.scm too

[Paul Johnson]

Concerning the point that the window geometries are not saved anymore, I 
have a work around.

Recall the problem is that lispArchiver is not created.  If you debug in 
main.m, of any swarm app, you'll find "lispArchiver" is not created by 
initSwarm (at least on  Fedora Core Linux).

The global variable "lispArchiver" is defined, but it is nil.  So just 
put in this one line in main.m:

  lispArchiver = [LispArchiver create: globalZone setPath: 
"/tmp/swarmArchiver.scm"];

Run the model, hit the "save" button,and the settings are saved into 
/tmp/swarmArchiver.scm.

Still don't know the reason why gcc-4.1 (or something else in FC5 
broke), but I'm starting to suspect I may figure it out someday.

In Heatbugs, I find that inserting this line after initSwarm will cause 
the saving and recovering to work as it did before.


lispArchiver = [LispArchiver create: globalZone
          setPath: "/home/pauljohn/.swarmArchiver.scm"];

I fiddled around with ways to automate the retrieval of my HOME 
directory. But all the ways I try cause a seg fault.  So I'll spare you.

pj


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