Re: Distinguishing Next from Start.

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "GO" == Gadi ORON <address@hidden> writes:

GO> Is there any way to know if the current simulation timestep is
GO> done through the "Next" button of the ProcCtrl or rather because
GO> the "Start" button was pushed?

In an ObserverSwarm, you do something like below.  (You just need
to have access to the ControlPanel, one way or another.)

In Objective C ControlStateNextTime is a global variable, a Symbol.

Index: HeatbugObserverSwarm.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/hive/Swarm/jheatbugs/HeatbugObserverSwarm.java,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -c -r1.14 HeatbugObserverSwarm.java
*** HeatbugObserverSwarm.java   2000/02/29 00:57:40     1.14
--- HeatbugObserverSwarm.java   2000/08/21 23:02:14
***************
*** 284,289 ****
--- 284,295 ----
      
      if (unhappyGraph != null)
        unhappyGraph.step ();
+ 
+     if (getControlPanel ().getState () == Globals.env.ControlStateNextTime)
+       System.out.println ("Next");
+     else
+       System.out.println ("Start");
+         
      return this;
    }
  



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