Problem Running RoboRunner

FYI -- line 66 is the while part of the do/while loop.

I'll take a deeper look later when I'm home. At a glance, it seems like processOutput is coming up null - maybe the condition should be "processOutput != null && ...". What command are you using to launch this?

Looks like the problem was I didn't have one of the needed Robocode jars in the classpath. Thanks for including source in the RoboRunner jar; that made debugging easier.

Fixing the classpath fixed the problem I was having. Also, I am running RoboRunner via new RoboRunner(...) and then calling the runBattles() method. I need to dig a little deeper to determine how best to extract the battle results; at the moment it is just letting RoboRunner barf them on System.out. :-)

One thing is for sure -- it runs oodles faster than RoboResearch. I'm definitely switching. I suppose it may have been possible to branch RoboResearch to run battles a la RoboRunner, but I'm having fun building a new UI, so I'm continuing on.

Cool, good to hear! I don't think I kept any real test results of speed vs RoboResearch, but I think it was in the range of 20% less time for my bot / system. The smart battles stuff helps too, but it's hard to measure.

Similarly, I had long wanted to update RoboResearch to use the control API instead of launching external Java processes. When I started digging into it, it just looked easier / better / more fun to rewrite from scratch.