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package avrora.actions;

import avrora.gui.AvroraGui;
import cck.text.Terminal;

/**
 * The <code>VisualAction</code> class serves as an action that creates an initializes a GUI
 * for Avrora.
 */
public class GUIAction extends Action {

    public AvroraGui app; //allows us to access GUI

    public static final String HELP = "The \"gui\" action launches a GUI allowing the user to interactively " +
            "create simulations, complete with graphical monitors.";

    public GUIAction() {
        super(HELP);
    }

    /**
     * The <code>run()</code> method is called by the main classand starts the GUI.
     * If a file was specified by the command line, it will be passed to the GUI as
     * part of the arguments.
     */
    public void run(String[] args) throws Exception {

        //Let's turn off colors
        Terminal.useColors = false;

        //Provide nothing to the array if it's empty
        if (args.length < 1) {
            args = new String[1];
            args[0] = "";
        }

        //For now, we don't run it in a seperate thread.
        //We'll wait until we have problems until we try the whole seperate thread thing
        AvroraGui.init(options, args);
        AvroraGui.instance.showGui();
    }


    public void stopSim() {
        app.topMenu.updateMenuBar();
        app.masterFrame.setJMenuBar(app.topMenu.menuBar);
    }

}
