[Newbies] MorphicAlarms

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sun Aug 11 00:54:32 UTC 2019


Not sure about the Debugger's use of it, but Morphic Alarms in general are
used to do something in the future, like display a help balloon, but with
the ability to be canceled before the expiry.

 - Chris

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 5:24 PM Christoph Thiede <
christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm investigating parts of the Debugger's implementation and am just
> wondering why Debugger>>#contents:notifying: does add an alarm to the
> world.
> Never seen this before, what is the purpose of these alarms? And what is
> the
> reason of that magic number (200 milliseconds)? I cannot even find any
> sender of #alarms in my image ...
>
> Curious,
> Christoph
>
>
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