Re: Instantiating multiple ModelSwarms

[Marcus G. Daniels]

MD> It doesn't work well to have two GUISwarms.  In the ControlPanel (that
MD> the GUISwarm creates), there is use of a global variable that loses
MD> information about the exact status of things.  If you want two sets of
MD> control buttons (one for experiment management and a control panel for
MD> sequential instances), you'll need to write your own controller on top
MD> of the activity library.

FW> That's a clear answer at least. 

FW> Of course you will have noticed that the ExperBug example from the
FW> tutorial incites enthousiastic modellers to explore this option.

There is only one GUISwarm in the Objective C simpleExperBug example.

Given sufficient enthusiasm, one could implement (say) some Java classes
that would provide multiple control panels.

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