[Newbies] Morphic - How to animate without defining #step ?

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

El 1/20/08 7:29 AM, "Oscar Nierstrasz" <oscar.nierstrasz at gmail.com>
escribió:

> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have been struggling with Morphic animation.
> 
> I would like to animate some different algorithms that compute
> solutions to various puzzles. (It is for an introduction to Squeak for
> high school students.)
> 
> Normally animations in Morphic are done by defining the #step method.
> But in this case I want to animate various stages of an algorithm.  I
> cannot split the algorithm into bits and pieces that can be evaluated
> by #step without destroying the algorithm.  I have tried to update the
> morph from within the algorithm (i.e., by changing the color of
> various submorphs) but this does not work.  I only see the final state.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if what I want to do is even possible?  Any
> pointers to some existing application that does this?
> 
> If you want to see what I am trying to do, look at
> Mazemorph>>shortestPath in http://www.squeaksource.com/SOI.html
> 
> MazeMorph soi openInWorld; shortestPath
> 
> There is a simple BoardMorph made up of CellMorphs, specialized to
> search through a maze and find the shortest path.  I would like to
> animate the depth-first searching, but I can only display the final
> state.  There are other algorithms I would like to animate, but this
> is a typical case.
> 
> (I thought of evaluating the algorithm as a separate process, with
> pauses at key points, and using #step to continue to the next pause,
> but that seems like overkill to me.  There must be an easier way ...)

Oscar:
Exist one solution for you evaluate and see if meet your requirements.

self  addAlarm:  #continue after: self delayTime

for any Morph

delayTime should be a instvar of the derived Morph.

Or you could have some more complicated.
Wish tomorrow I see you code for ideas ?

Edgar