com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper
Interface GenerationListener

All Known Implementing Classes:

Applet_PepperedMoth, EvolutionaryApplet, GenerationListener_, GenerationListener_Standard, VisualizingEvolutionaryApplet

public interface GenerationListener

Defines a callback method for invocation whenever a Evolution runs. Note that in general, this will happen more frequently than when the population changes.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Field Summary

static int

$1_SECOND 1000

Method Summary

void	onGeneration(Evolvable evolvable) This method is called whenever the Evolvable implementer completes a new generation or when the Evolution itself is completely exhausted (has no more evolvables to work with).

Field Detail

$1_SECOND

static final int $1_SECOND

1000

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

onGeneration

void onGeneration(Evolvable evolvable)

This method is called whenever the Evolvable implementer completes a new generation or when the Evolution itself is completely exhausted (has no more evolvables to work with).

Parameters:

evolvable - the implementer of Evolvable which has completed a generation or null if the Evolution itself has completed. NOTE: implementers of this method must be prepared to accept null as the parameter.