Thanks ricardo!!! Stef
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Moran wrote: > I think I found the cause of the problem: I'm updating the position of each > morph inside a WorldState>>#addDeferredUIMessage:. In Pharo, this seems to be > really slow. You can test it by executing this: > > | rnd | > rnd := Random new. > 100 timesRepeat: [ > WorldState addDeferredUIMessage: [ > Morph new openInWorld; center: rnd next @ rnd next * Display > extent. > ] > ]. > > You'll notice it takes a couple of seconds to finish opening all the morphs, > but if you remove the #addDeferredUIMessage: send, it is instantaneous. In > Squeak and Etoys both versions are equally fast. > > I looked at it a little, and I think Pharo has a bug in > WorldState>>#runStepsMethodsIn:. It seems it only executes one deferred ui > message per step. With the implementation below the problem is fixed. > > WorldState>>#runStepMethodsIn: aWorld > "Perform periodic activity inbetween event cycles" > | queue nextInQueue| > > "If available dispatch some deferred UI Message" > queue := self class deferredUIMessages. > [(nextInQueue := queue nextOrNil) isNil] > whileFalse: [ nextInQueue value]. > > self runLocalStepMethodsIn: aWorld. > > Best regards, > Richo > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > The latest stable 1.1.1. I will look at it tomorrow and try to find out more. > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: > hi ricardo, > > which version are you using? > > Stef > > On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Ricardo Moran wrote: > > > I forgot to say it works in Squeak and Pharo (although in Pharo it's > > *painfully* slow, I don't know why yet...) > > > > Cheers > > Richo > > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi guys! > > I want to tell you some exciting news. Thanks to the ESUG Innovation > > Technology Awards we've been able to buy ourselves a Microsoft Kinect. We > > don't have a Xbox 360 yet, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun > > with it. Who needs and Xbox if you can use Kinect with Etoys? :) > > > > After seeing Stephen Howell's great work using Kinect with Scratch, we > > followed his steps and made it available for Etoys as well. > > See it for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqqaHvbeqg > > > > You can find installation steps in our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira > > > > Cheers! > > Richo > > > > > > >
