avrora.gui
Class ManageSimTime

java.lang.Object
  avrora.gui.ManageSimTime

public class ManageSimTime

extends java.lang.Object

From a high level view, the controls what the simulation is doing. It can start, top, pause, speed up, and slow down the simulator. It also contains within it the visual component necessary to make this happen (the start, stop buttons, the slider for controlling time. AvroraGui accesses these visual elements and displays them

Field Summary

javax.swing.JPanel

simTimeEverything This is a panel that contains all the visual elements of this class.

Constructor Summary

ManageSimTime()

Method Summary

boolean	checkAndDispatch(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) This function checks to see if an event was caused by this panel.
static ManageSimTime	createManageSimTime() This is a "constructor" - it inits all internal fields It is generally called by AvroraGui when the GUI is being created
boolean	sliderAndSpinnerDispatch(javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent e) This function checks to see if an event was caused by this panel.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

simTimeEverything

public javax.swing.JPanel simTimeEverything

This is a panel that contains all the visual elements of this class. It can be displayed by AvroraGui and the user can then interact with it

Constructor Detail

ManageSimTime

public ManageSimTime()

Method Detail

createManageSimTime

public static ManageSimTime createManageSimTime()

This is a "constructor" - it inits all internal fields It is generally called by AvroraGui when the GUI is being created

Returns:

An instance of ManageSimTime

checkAndDispatch

public boolean checkAndDispatch(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e)

This function checks to see if an event was caused by this panel. If so, it reacts to it.

Returns:

true if this panel caused the event, otherwise false

sliderAndSpinnerDispatch

public boolean sliderAndSpinnerDispatch(javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent e)

This function checks to see if an event was caused by this panel. If so, it reacts to it. Instead of looking for action events, it looks for ChangeEvents.

Returns:

true if this panel caused the event, otherwise false