[Newbies] isStepping question

[Christine Wolfe]

Thank you so much for the explanation. I will keep that philosophy in mind
as I try to figure out other techniques as well.

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On 07.11.2009, at 14:45, Christine Wolfe wrote:

> Wow! That worked.  But I'm sorry to hear that morph doesn't support  
> a loop
> like I wanted.  That sounds restrictive but maybe I just need more  
> time in
> world to become squeakified.

Actually that's a restriction of about any event-driven GUI. Your code  
must not wait until some event occurs because the other UI elements  
would be blocked by that. Everything (e.g. event handling, animation,  
painting) is done in call-back methods, the main loop calls your code  
which must return ASAP.

The only way around that is by using background processes, which is  
possible in Squeak of course, but usually introduces many more  
problems than it solves. Better adhere to the standard practices,  
which is do-one-thing-and-return.

- Bert -

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