[Repast-developer] Changing the model mid-run

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

Hello,

I'm working on making an IDE for Repast. We're allowing the user to  
code within our program and change the model's and agent's variables  
and functions mid-run. It should be rather snazzy once we get the  
bugs ironed out.

I'm having a problem with AbstractGUIController/BaseController,  
however. It seems that calling setModel(...) in the middle of a run  
(when the model is paused, of course) doesn't have any effect on  
which model is used when I call startSim() again.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Reuben

P.S. The way we let the user change the model mid-run is by  
recompiling the code, loading the new class (using a slightly new  
name), making a new instance, and then copying over all the variables  
from the old Model using reflection. (Here are some comments on the  
main class that allows me to do this: http://tinyurl.com/8zo28)

If any of you are interested in an IDE for Repast, then we'd love  
your help coding!
Our wiki is here: http://indigosim.sourceforge.net (still kind of  
under construction)
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