TextScreen

A window with a table to show the attributes of an object along the simulation. Each call to notify() add one more line to the content of the window.

Arguments

• select: A vector of strings with the name of the attributes to be observed. If it is only a single value then it can also be described as a string. As default, it selects all the user-defined attributes of an object. In the case of Society, if it does not have any numeric attributes then it will use the number of agents in the Society as attribute.
• target: An Agent, Cell, CellularSpace, Society.

Usage

agent = Agent{
    size = 5,
    age = 1
}

TextScreen{
    target = agent,
    select = {"size" , "age"}
}

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Functions

save	Save a TextScreen into a file.
update	Update the TextScreen with the latest values of its target.

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save

Save a TextScreen into a file. Supported extensions are bmp, jpg, png, and tiff.

Arguments

• #1: A string with the file name.

Usage

agent = Agent{
    size = 5,
    age = 1
}

ts = TextScreen{
    target = agent,
    select = {"size" , "age"}
}

ts:save("file.bmp")
File("file.bmp"):delete()

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update

Update the TextScreen with the latest values of its target. It is usually recommended to use the TextScreen as action of an Event instead of calling this function explicitly.

Arguments

• #1: An optional argument that can be a number with the current time or an Event.

Usage

agent = Agent{
    size = 5,
    age = 1
}

ts = TextScreen{
    target = agent,
    select = {"size" , "age"}
}

ts:update()