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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);
      }
  
  }
  