John M McIntosh wrote: > Ok, I have to comment since i'm up to my neck with alligators over > performSelectorOnMainThread: In fact just this evening 4 hours toasted > to document a bug with this call with Apple for tomorrow. > > (a) people don't realize with the carbon os-x vm we run on the Main > Thread and poll for os-x events that then get dispatch to the squeak > vm event handlers. > This leads to the interesting jerky non-responsive feedback you get > with the VM when you accidently kill the morphic polling loop, since > we aren't servicing > the UI event polling fast enough since we are using a fallback 1/2 > second ancient piece of code that in the past looked for the > interrupt key.
This is gone in the new event sensor design. Michael _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
