Hi all
I have a wireless scenario and I need to get the position of a mobile node 
through the TCL script and not in C++ as I've seen in many mailing list 
answers.
I'm still wondering why nobody implemented a method in tcl to GET the 
co-ordinates (is it so unuseful?) in the official versions of ns-2, so I 
decided to write it on my own with the help of the messages I found here in 
the mailing list, with no success.

First try: editing mobilenode.cc adding code like this:

[...]
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], "getx") == 0) {
    Tcl& tcl = Tcl::instance();
    tcl.resultf("%f", X_);
    return TCL_OK;
}
[...]

And so on for y and z.
It doesn't work... After I recompiled the code, I tried to get the x value 
like this:

set x [$node1 getx]

But I get an error... It seems that the command "getx" doesn't exist...
Where's the mistake?

Second try: editing ns-mobilenode.tcl adding:

[...]
Node/MobileNode instproc getX {} {
    $self instvar X_
    return $X_
}
[...]

And so on for y and z.
Here comes the funny thing: it seems that ns-2 simply ignores this file.. 
even editing the existing functions contained here I get always the same 
results (for example removing all the content of a function, I should have a 
function that does nothing, and I get a function that does the original 
instructions instead...)

Is there a kind user that faced this problem before and could help me?

Thanks in advance
    Fabio D'Aprano 

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