In one of my models, I implement the interface Propertied, returning a Properties object. This allows me to use inpectors with agents each of which is implemented by a series of objects one at a time. I can
then double-click on an agent in the GUI and see the field values of the agent change as the simulation progresses, even though there is actually a different object containing the data in each time step.
To subclass Properties I'm supposed to have a getDescription method, but the returned strings don't seem to be used. getDescription is called when I inspect an agent--if I stick print statements in it, they fire--but I don't see any other effect
of this method. The manual mentions there will be popup tooltips, but this is in a different context, where one is defining bean properties directly and defines a desXyz method to return a string description.
It's conceivable that something is getting messed up because of a conflict between Clojure's and MASON's assumptions; I use MASON with Clojure rather than Java. There is another case in which I'm pretty sure that Clojure is getting confused
by MASON, but it's not important, and I haven't though it worth trying to ask for help. However, I don't think this is a Clojure issue, because I don't see tooltips on any of the built-in sample models I've looked at, either (but I have only checked a few).
Should I be seeing tooltips over the field names when I inspect an agent? If this is not supposed to work, that's no problem for me. It would be slightly more convenient to skip providing a distinct description for each field, so if the descriptions
aren't going to be used anyway, I can make getDescription return an empty string in all cases.
Thanks much-
Marshall
Marshall Abrams, Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mail: HB 414A, 900 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260; Office: HB 418