Thank you so much for the explanation. I will keep that philosophy in mind as I try to figure out other techniques as well.
-----Original Message----- From: beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bert Freudenberg Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:40 AM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] isStepping question On 07.11.2009, at 14:45, Christine Wolfe wrote: > Wow! That worked. But I'm sorry to hear that morph doesn't support > a loop > like I wanted. That sounds restrictive but maybe I just need more > time in > world to become squeakified. Actually that's a restriction of about any event-driven GUI. Your code must not wait until some event occurs because the other UI elements would be blocked by that. Everything (e.g. event handling, animation, painting) is done in call-back methods, the main loop calls your code which must return ASAP. The only way around that is by using background processes, which is possible in Squeak of course, but usually introduces many more problems than it solves. Better adhere to the standard practices, which is do-one-thing-and-return. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
