It prints "Used? true", along with my other output that tells me that my 
gene 5 is out of the bounds I set (it isn't just my 5th gene either 6 
other genes are out of range too).

Thanks for the response.
Brad

Sean Luke wrote:
> Rafal Kicinger donated a significant amount of vector min/max code in 
> the last iteration.  We may have a bug.  To start, go to 
> InterVectorSpecies.java and modify individualGeneMinMaxUsed() to look 
> like this please:
>
>     boolean flag = false;
>     public final boolean individualGeneMinMaxUsed()
>         {
>     if (!flag) System.out.println("Used?  " + (maxGenes != null) );
>     flag = true;
>         return (maxGenes!=null);
>         }
>
> This should print out (on the Used? line) whether or not we're doing 
> per-gene Min-Max.  Let me know what the result is.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Bradford N Barr wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've recently begun learning how to use ecj. I can competently use 
>> GP, and now I'm playing with some GA's. I'm having an issue with my 
>> GA's parameters. I assume it is something simple (like I have got the 
>> base wrong or something).
>>
>> I want some of my genes to be of different lengths, for 
>> IntegerVectorSpecies the class documentation says I can use 
>> base.min-gene.n for this purpose. I'm doing this but my genes are not 
>> getting their specific limit, only the overall limit.
>>
>> I'm going to include my params file, its pretty small and straight 
>> forward. My gene 5 had a value 94 last run when its limit is 20.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Brad
>>
>> parent.0 = /usr/share/ecj/ec/simple/simple.params
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.size = 50
>> generations = 100
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.species = ec.vector.IntegerVectorSpecies
>> pop.subpop.0.species.ind = ec.vector.IntegerVectorIndividual
>> pop.subpop.0.species.fitness = ec.simple.SimpleFitness
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.species.genome-size = 14
>> pop.subpop.0.species.crossover-type     = two
>> pop.subpop.0.species.crossover-prob     = 1.0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.mutation-prob      = 0.05
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene = 100
>> # pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene = 0
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.0 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.1 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.1 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.1 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.2 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.2 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.3 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.3 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.4 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.4 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.5 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.5 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.6 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.6 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.7 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.7 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.8 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.8 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.9 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.9 = 10
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.10 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.10 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.11 = 1
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.11 = 20
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.12 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.12 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.13 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.13 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.14 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.14 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.15 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.15 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.16 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.16 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.17 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.17 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.18 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.18 = 100
>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.19 = 0
>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.19 = 100
>>
>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe = ec.vector.breed.VectorMutationPipeline
>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0 = 
>> ec.vector.breed.VectorCrossoverPipeline
>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0 = 
>> ec.select.TournamentSelection
>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.1 = 
>> ec.select.TournamentSelection
>>
>> select.tournament.size = 3
>>
>> eval.problem = fa.meta.MetaProblem