Hello List,

I wrote some emails in the past months, thanks for the suggestions. The fact is that I am translating a complex model from C to Mason, and the scheduling thing is the one that puzzled me the most. 
I think I have something more reliable now, which looks something like:

static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SimState state = new SimulationEnvironment(System.currentTimeMillis());
        state.nameThread();
        doLoop(SimulationEnvironment.class, args);
        System.exit(0);
}

and a start() method like:

public void start() {
        super.start();

        marketSpace.clear();
        // two Bag
        capitalGoodFirms.clear();
        consumptionGoodFirms.clear();

        for (int i = 0; i < N1; i++) {
            CapitalGoodFirm p = new CapitalGoodFirm();
            p.setId(i);
            marketSpace.setObjectLocation(p,
                    new Int2D(random.nextInt(marketSpace.getWidth()),
                            random.nextInt(marketSpace.getHeight())));
            capitalGoodFirms.add(p);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < N2; i++) {
            ConsumptionGoodFirm p = new ConsumptionGoodFirm();
            p.setId(i);
            marketSpace.setObjectLocation(p,
                    new Int2D(random.nextInt(marketSpace.getWidth()),
                            random.nextInt(marketSpace.getHeight())));
            consumptionGoodFirms.add(p);
        }
        // do some stuff just once
        Initialize.initialize((SimulationEnvironment) this);
        // what agents have to do at each step
        schedule.scheduleRepeating(
                new Steppable() {
                    @Override
                    public void step(SimState state) {
                        // this follows a bit the C structure I had, where different procedures
                        // were called and each of the procedure called both agents types 
                        CallProcedureOne((SimulationEnvironment) state);
                        CallProcedureTwo((SimulationEnvironment) state);
                        ...
                    }
                }, 0, 1);
}

My model is working now, so thanks for all the suggestions so far. Still, I would like a run to stop after 10 steps, this is a parameter that the user can set in the UI, but I don't know how to pass it to the SimState... 

I understand that from command line I can specify the maximum steps and the number of jobs, like do this simulation 20 times and each of the runs stops after 10 steps. What I am missing now is: is it possible to stop from the UI the simulation after x steps?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,
Simone

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Simone Gabbriellini, PhD

Post-doctoral Researcher
ANR founded research project "DIFFCERAM"
GEMASS, CNRS & Paris-Sorbonne.

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