Kepler

I'm not sure how to reproduce this.
Doing Tools -> Instantiate Component over and over again creates
Ramp
Ramp2
Ramp3

I must be missing something?

I should've been more clear, this is using the Kepler File => Import Archive (KAR) menu item and then looking at the resulting updated library tree, not Instantiate Components.

I've checked in a fix, but am leaving this open and changing to a feature request -- see if there's a better way to go about this. When a user instantiates multiple copies of the same actor, kepler increments the number on the name of the actor on the canvas. Things can get confusing when looking back and forth between the canvas and actor tree.

Soong notes that when dragging an actor with name ending in a digit(s) to canvas, the digits are dropped.

Re: comment#4, for example, if an actor RExpressionRain2001 is created and saved in the library, when dragged to canvas, it becomes RExpressionRain. One reason is that NamedObj's uniqueName method strips the numeric suffix. I've made a change to NamedObj locally to not do this, to instead optionally append an underscore followed by a unique number. If it's the first instance, it will be RExpressionRain2001. The second would be RExpressionRain2001_2. However, the first instance still gets its numeric suffix (2001) stripped by the time the actor hits the canvas, because MoMLParser's attribute calls CompositeEntity's uniqueName().

I see 5 declarations of uniqueName(), and many calls to them. I'm a little reluctant to make changes, it seems like there could be many ramifications...

One slightly hackish solution is to have the first instance of e.g. RExpressionRain2001 dragged to canvas be called RExpressionRain2001_. This seems to work, but isn't very satisfying.

See also https://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61 and
maybe http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5726

Original Bugzilla ID was 4049

To prevent the ending digits from being removed when dropping an actor on the canvas, set the display name and make the display name and name different.