com.agentfactory.cldc
Class PrintActuator

java.lang.Object
  com.agentfactory.cldc.logic.Action
      com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator
          com.agentfactory.cldc.PrintActuator

public class PrintActuator
extends Actuator

Enables an agent to print a message to the console. The trigger for this actuator is print(?text), where the ?text variable represents the string that is to be displayed.

Author:

Conor Muldoon

Constructor Summary

PrintActuator(AffectManager manager)
Creates an instance of PrintActuator.

Method Summary

boolean

act(FOS action) The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action.

Methods inherited from class com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator

adoptBelief, adoptBelief, register, retractBelief

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PrintActuator

public PrintActuator(AffectManager manager)

Creates an instance of PrintActuator.

Parameters:

manager - the affect manager for the agent.

Method Detail

act

public boolean act(FOS action)

Description copied from class: Action

The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action. It provides the imperative functionality of the action.

Specified by:

act in class Action

Parameters:

action - the applied first order stucture, which matches with the identifier for the Actuator or Action.

Returns:

true if the action was successful, false otherwise.