[squeak-dev] wait2ms

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Feb 7 02:11:46 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:19:45PM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 07:57:11PM +0000, H. Hirzel wrote:
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>I assume you commented out
> >>   self wait2ms.
> >>in
> >>   EventSensor >> primKbdPeek
> >>and
> >>   EventSensoer >> primKbdNext
> >>
> >
> >I just commented out the body of the wait2ms method, so effectively
> >like removing it entirely from the system.
> >
> >>this indeed has the effect that the cursor is no positioned correctly
> >>in MVC when typing fast in an MVC workspace.
> >>
> >>What could be the possible side effect of removing the call to
> >>     self wait2ms
> >>
> >>in these two methods?
> >>
> >
> >I don't know. I guess I would want to go back and understand the original
> >motivation for adding it. A lot a things have changed since 2005, and I
> >would not want to do a quick fix without understanding it. But for now
> >I'll leave it commented out in my own image :)
> 
> The author's explanation is here:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-March/147269.html
> It's also worth reading the responses.
> 

The wait2ms delay is now removed from Squeak trunk. It is possible that
the original problem will come back, but if so a different solution will
be required. Meanwhile there is no point in leaving MVC (and Scratch?)
broken, so wait2ms is gone.

Dave



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