Simone, I suggest you do not write your own loop, period.  Instead, use doLoop().

All initialization (or re-initialization) of your model should be done in start().  

There is no need for schedule.getTime()==-1 (and you should not use -1 anyway, use a proper constant), since start() is always called before the simulation, you know, starts.

Sean

On Aug 1, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Simone Gabbriellini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I need to setup my agents before entering the big loop, and I am wondering where to call an initialize() method... right now I have this code:
> 
> public void start() {
>         super.start(); //use the previously defined code, then we add our own.
>         if(schedule.getTime()==-1){
>             initialize();
>         }
>         mach();
>         totcredit();
> }
> 
> is there a better approach to this? I tried this in my main, but initialize() is not called:
> 
> static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>         SimulationEnvironment state = new SimulationEnvironment(System.currentTimeMillis());
>         state.nameThread();
>         for (int job = 0; job < MC; job++) {
>             state.setJob(job);
>             state.initialize();
>             state.start();
>             do {
>                 if (!state.schedule.step(state)) {
>                     break;
>                 }
>             } while (state.schedule.getSteps() < T);
>             state.finish();
>         }
>         System.exit(0);
>     }
> 
> best,
> Simone
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