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Broadcast Action
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| Definition: | The Broadcast action broadcasts a message to all agents of the class indicated in the action's Class parameter.
The message to be broadcast is indicated in the action's text field and is a method call to all agents of the indicated Class. The Broadcast action is used in conjunction with On triggers; the receivers can react to the message via the On trigger. These triggers give names to groups of rules (methods) that can be called using the Broadcast action. |
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| Parameters: | class, method name | |
| Example: | The Scanner agent in the How Does TV Work? simulation broadcasts to the TV Beam and Video-Signal agents the message to turn bright or dark, depending on what it scans.
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