Re-2: [Newbies] Stef, BotsInc problem...

[David T. Lewis]

Actually, Ned's ProcessBrowser does a good job of this right now.
Try playing around with it, you will be surprised at how easy
it is to pause and restart a background process, inspect it,
and interrupt it in a debugger.

Note also <http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1578>, which makes
MVC and Morphic work the same way for background processes that
update the UI (it also has a small ProcessBrowser fix).

Dave

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:54:14PM -0800, Todd Blanchard wrote:
> I often wish Squeak worked that way by default.
> 
> Too many times I've kicked off a doit that ran for too long, then  
> began to wonder what it was doing, but the UI was frozen.  This is  
> also true of fileins, etc.  I would strongly support an effort to do  
> much less work in the UI thread and a clean feedback mechanism for  
> displaying progress and killing/suspending/debugging runaway items.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> >So the approach that he took was to fork each script and arrange  
> >for the UI to be updated from time to time as the individual  
> >scripts are running.