excellent!
we are in alpha so we can be wild :)

Stef

On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Gary Chambers wrote:

> No arguments on weak stuff... VisualAge did a good job of those things
> (perhaps the garbage collector was better integrated with the  
> concept).
>
> The driving force for our synchronisation stuff was the need to  
> provide
> timely feedback, in terms of screen redraws, driven from separate
> processes that, for instance, were monitoring keystrokes from
> non-standard keypad devices, network messages etc. Was a necessity and
> proven in the field! I can get things together as a package later in  
> the
> week. Very small footprint for a generalised per-object/sub-object
> scheme.
>
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:24 -0500, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
>> Stef, Gary,
>>
>> Having recently ranted a little about thread safety for weak  
>> collection, how can I argue?  Well, let me see if I can do so and  
>> keep my credibility intact :)
>>
>> Squeak's weak collections, and we have not moved beyond their  
>> limitations, do not clean themselves after their elements are  
>> finalized.  That means they do half of what they should do; once  
>> they do all of it, they need to be thread safe; hence they do one  
>> third of what they should do.
>>
>> The GUI is arguably a little different.  #addDeferredUIMessage:  
>> provides a clean way to interact with it from background threads,  
>> and that might be enough.  IDE specific messages (e.g. #inspect)  
>> could probably stand to be queued to make them safe w/o horrible  
>> penalties, with the remainder of the GUI understood not to be  
>> thread safe for performance reasons.  A backround thread can do  
>> expensive calculations and then queue a GUI update to safely update  
>> the display.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:pharo- 
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse
>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:28 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: MouseOverHandler
>>
>> Hi gary
>> do you think that it make sense to have it in general (my gut  
>> feeling is saying yes but I'm not thread-safe)
>>
>> If yes, yes we are interested for 1.1
>>
>> BTW hernan I integrated your changes now it would be interesting to  
>> understand from where this nil is coming.
>>
>> Stef
>> On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Gary Chambers wrote:
>>
>>> Yet the cause is unexplained. I still think it is due to non-ui
>>> processes fiddling with morphs (likely delettion or creation).
>>> The Morphic event loop remains non-thread safe. We have some
>>> modifications to ensure thread safety, based on a generalised
>>> synchronisation protocol if anyone is interested.
>>>
>>> Regards, Gary
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Hernan Wilkinson
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:45 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: MouseOverHandler
>>>
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>> the current implementation has problems, ie. send messages to nil,
>>> and it bothers a lot when that happens because it comes from
>>> nowhere...
>>> I've been using this implementation for a long time in my images and
>>> I did not get those problems anymore (and it is more readable...)
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Adrian Lienhard <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Hernan,
>>>
>>> The reason this was not integrated is that nobody marked it as  
>>> 'fixed'
>>> nor tagged it as 1.0.
>>>
>>> Is this critical for 1.0?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>> BTW, if anybody sees changes/fixes not being integrated please ask  
>>> on
>>> the mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2009, at 14:29 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Hernan Wilkinson <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: October 29, 2009 2:02:32 PM GMT+01:00
>>>>> To: Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: MouseOverHandler
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Stef,
>>>>> do you know why the MouseOverHandler version I made is not in the
>>>>> main image? the current version is not working well, under heavy
>>>>> use it generates exceptions...
>>>>> I'm attaching the version I wrote that I'm using without
>>> problem...
>>>>>
>>>>> Hernan.
>>>> <MouseOverHandler.st>
>>>>
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