[Newbies] RectangleMorph vs. BlobMorph

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:16:28PM -0400, Jeffrey Straszheim wrote:
> I can't be much help except to say it does the same on mine, during the 1st 
> doit.  Hitting cmd-period gives me a debug box, but the system remains 
> non-responsive.
>
> Clearly this is a bug.  I suggest you post it to 
> http://bugs.squeak.org/main_page.php

What image are you using? It works on my image (Croquet) using
BlobMorphs, although updating the blobmorphs takes 100% cpu, the
image is still responsive

> polishookm wrote:
>> When I run following passages (first the code marked 1st, then the code 
>> marked 2nd, and last, the code marked 3rd),     1st: 100 RectangleMorphs 
>> draw to the screen
>>    2nd: they change position
>>    3rd: they disappear.
>>
>> If I use BlobMorph instead of RectangleMorph, both Squeak and my computer 
>> freeze. Other than the obvious (don't do this with BlobMorph!), why is 
>> RectangleMorph ok in this circumstance whereas BlobMorph isn't.

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