On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Maciej M. Latek wrote:



> Everything depends on the layout you are using. In most cases, a

> straightforward application of any of them to repaint a dynamic  

> network each

> MASON time step will result in display of many intermittent JUNG  

> steps,

> which makes things slower and certainly a lot uglier.



If the issue is that JUNG is taking too long to repaint, here's  

another approach.  Let's say that you've inserted into your  

GUIState's "mini-schedule" a repeating Steppable that looks like this:



public class MySteppable extends Steppable

	{

	public void step(SimState state) { if (myJungComponent!=null)  

myJungComponent.repaint(); }

	}







You could set this up to only update within N milliseconds like this:





public class MySteppable extends Steppable

	{

	    Thread timer = null;

	    public void startTimer(final long milliseconds)

	       {

	       if (timer == null)

	           timer= sim.util.Utilities.doLater(milliseconds, new  

Runnable()

	              {

	              public void run()

	                  {

	                  if (myJungComponent!=null) myJungComponent.repaint();

	                  timer = null;  // reset the timer

	                  }

	              });

	       }



	   public void step(SimState state) { startTimer(100); }



	}



This guarantees that only one repaint will be forced every 100ms.  Of  

course, it also delays your repaint by as much as 100ms -- if you'd  

like an immediate repaint followed by a 100ms wait, an easy way to do  

it is to just do a repaint now and a repaint at 100ms later like this:



public class MySteppable extends Steppable

	{

	    long lastRepaint = 0;

	    public void startTimer(final long milliseconds)

	       {

	       if (timer == null)

		   {

	           if (myJungComponent!=null) myJungComponent.repaint();  //  

repaint now

	           timer= sim.util.Utilities.doLater(milliseconds, new  

Runnable()

	              {

	              public void run()

	                  {

	                  if (myJungComponent!=null) myJungComponent.repaint 

();  // repaint later

	                  timer = null;  // reset the timer

	                  }

	              });

	       }



	   public void step(SimState state) { startTimer(100); }

	}



Sean