[Newbies] Quick noob snippets

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 20.05.2008, at 07:01, Herbert König wrote:

> Hello Sven,
>
> don't know about your first Question though people now may think it
> has been replied to.
>
>
> SS> 100 timesRepeat: [randomNo := 100 atRandom. anEllipse height:
> SS> randomNo. anEllipse borderWidth: anEllipse borderWidth + 1 ]
>
> SS>
> SS> It did work but it did the moves all at once. At first I
>
> World doOneCycleNow
> will update the UI and
> (Delay forMilliseconds: 20) wait
> will give you some time to watch every step.
>
> So your loop might look like
>
> 100 timesRepeat: [randomNo := 100 atRandom.
>   anEllipse height: randomNo.
>   anEllipse borderWidth: anEllipse borderWidth + 1.
>   World doOneCycleNow.
>   (Delay forMilliseconds: 20) wait]



Note that #doOneCycleNow is a Bad Hack, never to be used in real code,  
being punished by <insert favorite tim quote>.

The Right Way to do this in Morphic is to add a #step method in your  
own Morph subclass.

- Bert -