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Congrats on the first release! :-) I'll be sure to test it out soon on my systems and let you know how it goes.
I think it makes sense for you to just include RoboRunner in your downloads like this. It makes the setup so much easier, and savvy users could still drop in the latest RoboRunner JAR if they want (after next version). I'll try to incorporate your interrupt changes and the new results listener soon, sorry to drag my feet on that.
No problem. Instead of trying to handle InterruptedExceptions, you might just consider adding a volatile cancel flag that gets checked before you run each battle. That way, another thread can set the cancel flag to true when it wants RoboRunner to stop, and RoboRunner can shutdown more cleanly the next time it checks the cancel flag.
Also, to avoid possible contention over a score log, you might add some way to lock a score log (maybe add a ReentrantLock to control it that both RoboRunner and external threads can access). That way RoboJogger (or anything anyone else might write) can lock a score log when it reads it, unlock it when it's done, without worrying about stepping on RoboRunner trying to write to the score log at the same time.
Just some thoughts I had....
Okay, first of all. Good work! Unlike roborunner by itself. Robojogger actually seems to work. On the other hand, the results don't seem to work. Mid-season or end of running. It just never shows up as completed. Not sure what the problem is here.
It doesn't feel considerably faster then RoboResearch. But I haven't tested them head to head or anything. It might be because RoboResearch shows the progress on the UI itself (I understand how this might not be possible in RoboJogger, at least on a per turn basis).
Other Notes:
I notice it uses a different look and feel. Usually people expect programs to use their system look at feel. You can achieve this in java by using UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); This just goes to making the program feel more 'comfortable' to people who use it.
If you are releasing robocode with it, you could 'cut down' the robocode version included to reduce the size of the zip. It doesn't need a compiler, javadoc, rumble, templates, sample bots, etc. You also seem to have multiple copies of robocode in there as well. One in template, one in robocode_jars.
On the other hand, you may want to include a few default challenge files. Like say the ones RoboResearch has. This will help if someone doesn't have RoboResearch already, and/or doesn't know how to create a challenge file.
