/// <summary>
/// This is specially useful since it is possible that startevolution will be called
/// after stop evolution (because stopping is not instantaneous!)
/// </summary>
static void SaveDataIfRunning(string userName)
{
if (ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .IsUserRunning(userName))
{
PopulationReadWrite.SavePopulation(userName);
}
}
static void StartAndRunEvolution(string userName)
{
StartEvolution(userName);
while (ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .IsUserRunning(userName))
{
}
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("User: "******". End evolution: " + DateTime.Now.ToString());
}
static void TryLaunchEvolution(Action <string> launchDelegate, string userName)
{
if (!ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .ContainsUser(userName) ||
!ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .IsUserRunning(userName))
{
LaunchActionInThread(launchDelegate, userName);
}
else
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Evolution is already running: skipping start.");
}
}
static void StartEvolution(string userName)
{
NeatEvolutionAlgorithm <NeatGenome> evolutionAlgorithm = ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .EvolutionAlgorithmForUser(userName);
evolutionAlgorithm.MakeEvolutionReady();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("\nEvolution ready, starting iterations");
SaveDataIfRunning(userName);
if (ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .IsUserRunning(userName))
{
evolutionAlgorithm.StartContinue();
}
}
private static void TryStopEvolution(string userName)
{
// We should not be able to ask to stop a process that has not started!
// (And thus we ALWAYS expect this check to be true)
if (ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .ContainsUser(userName))
{
if (ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .IsUserRunning(userName))
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Stopping evolution process...");
ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .SetRunningStatus(userName, false);
ActiveUsersList <NeatGenome> .EvolutionAlgorithmForUser(userName).StopEvolution();
}
else
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Evolution is already stopped: skipping stop.");
}
}
else
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Requested to stop " + userName + " but it was not found in the dictionary!");
}
}