On Tuesday 06 July 2004 5:24 pm, Peter Keeler wrote:

> I've been working on a new brand of Inspector for Sets called (wait for
> it...) a SetInspector. I used Celeste recently to post a message about it
> to the list, although I don't know if it worked properly. It appeared as
> if it ate the comments I wrote to go along with the attachment, but I'm
> not sure. If anyone could tell me if I did something wrong, I'd appreciate
> it.
>
> The main problem I'm having is that the Inspectors seem to refresh their
> contents sporadically and unpredictably. I'd really like to improve this
> so that when I know for a fact that the contents of one of the panes has
> been altered, I can force a refresh. It would also be nice to get into the
> guts of the refreshing mechanism and make it a bit less haphazard, if that
> is a possibility. At this point, however, I am completely unable to find
> any clue as to how the refreshing happens. Does anyone know a bit about it
> that could point me in the right direction?

The Inspectors in Morphic refresh themselves using the standard Morphic 
stepping mechanism.

Unless you're doing a lot of work in the UI process (and thus delaying the 
redrawing), this should be fairly regular. 

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