Excellent - thanks so much for such a clear example.
Will try this afternoon!
Steve

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
On Oct 26, 2009, at 5:29 PM, steven citron-pousty wrote:

Thanks for your initial help - I got this running. The next problem I am running into is that since we use the doLoop to instantiate the class I don't have a handle to it nor can I pass in objects that I want to live on after the simulations are done.

doLoop is just a convenience method meant for calling things at the command line: don't do use it then.  Instead of doLoop, you could just do something like this:

       MyApp app = new MyApp(System.currentTimeMillis());
       app.start();
       for(int x=0 ; x < steps; x++)   // steps is whatever you want.  Or use some other stopping metric.
               app.schedule.step(app);
       app.finish();

Seriously, that simple.  The MASON simulation loop is intentionally simplistic.  At any rate, at the end of all this, you have the app variable, holding your simulation.

Sean