<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I often wish Squeak worked that way by default.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Too many times I've kicked off a doit that ran for too long, then began to wonder what it was doing, but the UI was frozen. This is also true of fileins, etc. I would strongly support an effort to do much less work in the UI thread and a clean feedback mechanism for displaying progress and killing/suspending/debugging runaway items.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Ned Konz wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">So the approach that he took was to fork each script and arrange for the UI to be updated from time to time as the individual scripts are running.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>