ciips.animation
Class AlgThread

java.lang.Object
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  +--java.lang.Thread
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        +--ciips.animation.AlgThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public abstract class AlgThread

extends java.lang.Thread

Animations should extend this class and implement the run and loadData methods.

Field Summary

AlgAnimFrame

frame

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

AlgThread()

Method Summary

void	generateData() Generate the example data set.
int	getDataPanelCount()
java.lang.String[]	getDataSets()
abstract boolean	loadData(int choice) Load or generate a specified data set.
void	restoreDrawingPanel()
abstract void	run() Run the animation.
void	setDelay(int delay)
void	setParms(AlgAnimFrame frame, java.lang.String[] ds, int frames)
void	shuffleDown() Shuffle the previous panels down
void	waitSkip()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getContextClassLoader, getName, getPriority, getThreadGroup, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setName, setPriority, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

frame

public AlgAnimFrame frame

Constructor Detail

AlgThread

public AlgThread()

Method Detail

setParms

public void setParms(AlgAnimFrame frame,
                     java.lang.String[] ds,
                     int frames)

getDataSets

public java.lang.String[] getDataSets()

setDelay

public void setDelay(int delay)

getDataPanelCount

public int getDataPanelCount()

shuffleDown

public void shuffleDown()

Shuffle the previous panels down

loadData

public abstract boolean loadData(int choice)

Load or generate a specified data set. The animation writer should implement this in the specialization class. choice will be a data set index in the range 0..max_data_sets-1

generateData

public void generateData()

Generate the example data set. Reads the chosen data set from the frame's menu, and calls loadData( choice ) to load or generate the appropriate data set.

run

public abstract void run()

Run the animation. This is the key method that the animator provides: it starts up the animation and runs it to completion.

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

restoreDrawingPanel

public void restoreDrawingPanel()

waitSkip

public void waitSkip()