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Swarm 1.3 Available
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Marcus G. Daniels |
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Swarm 1.3 Available |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:23:01 -0600 |
To the collectively evolving,
The Swarm team at the Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce that
Swarm 1.3 is ready.
Significant new features in the release include:
o Facilities for making movies of Swarm simulations
- Screen and widget pixmap snapshots (see heatbugs for an example)
- Pixmap output to PNG files
o New classes
- FunctionGraph, a widget for plotting a function of one variable across
a give range
- ListShuffler, a list ordering randomizer
- MultiVarProbeDisplay, a way to display a matrix of
variable probes across a list of objects
o Support for accessing installed configuration and data pathnames.
o Much improved portability and autoconfiguration
- Changes to facilitate package management
* Debian 2.0 .deb files for BLT 2.4e, libffi 1.18, and Swarm 1.3
* Redhat .rpm files for BLT 8.0, libffi 1.18, and Swarm 1.3
(Everyone say thanks to Paul Johnson!!)
- Support for BLT 2.4
- Workarounds for Win95-related GNU-win32 bugs
- Improved installation procedure for Windows
* A demo application package
* Environment configuration completely handled by InstallShield.
* Emacs compilation and shell environments work out of the box.
* No environment wrapper executable (e.g. swarm.exe).
Please refer to the Swarm World Wide Web release page for download
URLs, and a detailed breakdown of new features and bug fixes.
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/release.html
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