Hi Sean and Mike,

I just came up for air from grading :-) and implemented the fix.  It  
now works.  Thank you very much!

Mark

On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Sean Luke wrote:

> Last week Mark asked about a bug where simstate.kill() would cause  
> chart generators to appear to delete their data.
>
> After poking around I think I've found the source of the problem.   
> It's not that the data is going away.  It's that the chart  
> generators are receiving a spurious request to update some data at  
> time Infinity (which in MASON represents "the simulation is  
> over").  The chart generator dutifully adds that timestamp,  
> stretching the space to Infinity, and subtly breaking JFreeChart's  
> series mechanism.
>
> It's an easy fix: identify where your chart is being updated and  
> check to see if the timestamp is valid.  In  
> ChartingPropertyInspector I've fixed it by changing
>
> 	        if (lastTime < time || !updatedOnceAlready)
> to	
> 	        if (time >= state.schedule.EPOCH && time <  
> state.schedule.AFTER_SIMULATION &&
> 			 (lastTime < time || !updatedOnceAlready))  // bug fix
>
>
> If you're following the example in the howto.html file about making  
> a programmatic chart, you can change the line
>
>                // now add the data
>                series.add(x, y, true);
> to
>
>                // now add the data
>                if (x >= state.schedule.EPOCH && x <  
> state.schedule.AFTER_SIMULATION)
>                    series.add(x, y, true);
>
> There's a more subtle, minor, bug that I still have to track down:  
> MASON is requesting that elements update themselves at Infinity  
> (probably because SimState.kill() advanced the time to Infinity),  
> but the Console still shows the next time tick.  I'll mull that over.
>
> Sean