I'm starting out again with Mason and will appreciate some help with 

what I expect are fairly simple questions.



I'm transferring a Coordination Game model from Ascape to Mason.

The Ascape code is described here, if anyone's interested -

http://ascape.sourceforge.net/manual/Section3.html



In Mason, I'm using the Schoolyard model as a starter.

In Coordination Game, each agent needs a variable for its color.

I'm trying something like this (I don't think I'm implementing Mason 

SimpleColorMap correctly):



public class CoordinationPlayer implements Steppable

{

	//public static final double MAX_FORCE = 3.0;

	protected SimpleColorMap colormap = new 

SimpleColorMap(0,1,Color.black,Color.white);

	public Color color;

	public  MersenneTwisterFast random = new MersenneTwisterFast();



	public CoordinationPlayer()

	{

		if (random.nextInt(2) == 0)

			color = Color.red;// colormap.getColor(.2);

		else color = Color.yellow; //colormap.getColor(.7);

	}



	public Color getColor()

	{

	     return color;

	}



In CoordinationGameWithUI, - the color is displayed here, in this 

hybrid code from the Schoolyard model.

I'm trying to set the color with setPortryalForClass, where each class 

object has its own color.

This isn't working correctly:



	public void setupPortrayals()

	{

		CoordinationPlayers students = (CoordinationPlayers) state;



		yardgridPortrayal.setField(students.yardgrid);

I'M TRYING TO SET THE COLOR HERE:

		yardgridPortrayal.setPortrayalForClass(CoordinationPlayer.class,

                      new 

RectanglePortrayal2D(CoordinationPlayer.getColor(),true)); //new

                                                  

RectanglePortrayal2D(Color.red,true));

		yardgridPortrayal.setPortrayalForNull(new 

RectanglePortrayal2D(Color.blue,true));





Thanks for any help -

Randy Latimer