[Indigosim-developer] Monster Committ

[Reuben G. <reu...@ay...>]

Hey Guys,

I just did a monster commit. I changed the file format that societies  
are saved in and also fixed a bug that took me about three straight  
days to find. This bug was absolutely ridiculous and you'll laugh  
when I tell you the length to which I went to find this monster.

It turned out that I was adding DFields and DMethods as dependent on  
primitive DClasses. Essentially, I was saying that any method or  
field that relies on a double or integer should be notified when that  
double changes type or vice-versa. Of course that's meaningless  
because a primitive never changes and shouldn't care about other's  
types.

So what was happening was that after I opened a society file, we'd  
load a method that had a primitive field, say setX(double x), and the  
old Agent and Society templates would now be in the same graph as the  
new Society and Agent templates. Because they were in the same graph,  
it was a toss up which Agent.java file or Edge.java file would show  
up first - the one from the old AgentTemplate or EdgeTemplate that  
was created before the Society file was opened or the new one from  
the file.

Ug. What a mess.

Oh - currently changing the x and y position isn't working from  
within the new GUI, but I know what's causing that and I'm going to  
fix that first thing tomorrow.


Also, this fix should let me start working on a bunch of other  
strange bugs too.

Good Night,
Reuben
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