On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chris Cunnington <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12-08-15 3:12 PM, patrick dudjalija wrote: >> >> |ts sem| >> >> sem:=Semaphore new. >> >> [ts:= TestSynchro new. >> ts semaphore:sem. >> ts openInWorld. >> ts start.] fork. >> >> sem wait. >> Transcript cr; show:'Hello world !';cr. > > Well, I can observer a few things. The first is that running this code in a > Workspace the tem vars are unnecessary. (ie. |ts sem|). The second thing is > that if I execute the code down to "fork" it runs fine. A blue square > appears in the corner and it counts steps one to nine in the Transcript. > It's only when you add "sem wait" that it freezes. I had to use Command+. on > my Mac to unfreeze it. And I'm not convinced this is a bug. Remember, I > don't think there is a Morph anywhere that uses Semaphore in #step. I have a > feeling this is not a bug and that it's doing exactly what it's supposed to. > You have created a Morph and now you've stopped it with #wait. I bet that's > locking up the entire World, so it appears to freeze. That's my guess. > > HTH, > Chris
So, if you'd still like to do it this way, if you place your entire script from the workspace into a [] fork, it should then work (since it will no longer block the UI process). _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
