There is the Scheduler project on smalltalkhub. Norbert
> Am 30.04.2014 um 05:30 schrieb Ben Coman <[email protected]>: > > Igor Stasenko wrote: >> >> >>> On 29 April 2014 18:41, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Chris Wright wrote >>> > What is the best way to get the step message sent to non-morphs - or is >>> > there a better way in Pharo >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand exactly, but if you want to do it via Morphic >>> stepping, you could implement e.g. ModelTickingMorph which is invisible and >>> has no extent, and steps your model in it's #step. >>> >>> or you could use a process: >>> [ [ myModelObject step. 1 second asDelay wait ] repeat ] fork. >> except that you then will be also responsible for managing forked process >> by implementing it.. else it will loop forever, your object will never be >> GCed, >> consume CPU & waste memory :) >> oh.. and each time you test it once more, it will readily spawn another >> process with same characteristics :) > Maybe there should be a SystemStepper / Cron object that can be registered on. > cheers -ben >
