verbose messages

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Here's a handy new little feature for command-line control of messages.

I find I often accumulate quite a bit of non-trivial diagnostic code in
a model, but only rarely do I really want to look at it during a run.

With the `-v' command line option and the verboseMessage method, you
can control what is printed without touching the source code of your
model.  For example, with the program below (and today's DLLs and .jar
file), you can see how the `-v' option controls output.  (Just replace
System.out.println with Globals.env.verboseMessage.)
  
   ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest
   ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/testing/swarm-2001-03-20.tar.gz

$ javaswarm TestVerbose
$ javaswarm TestVerbose -v
woof woof!
$ cat TestVerbose.java
import swarm.Globals;

public class TestVerbose {
  static void main (String args[]) {
    Globals.env.initSwarm ("TestVerbose", "0.0", "address@hidden", args);

    Globals.env.verboseMessage ("woof woof!");
  }
}


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