[UI] Well, shall we do something then?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Sep 17 11:33:15 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:51:51PM -0400, Bill Schwab wrote:
> Another thing to consider is that user interfaces tend to like
> changes to be injected on their main thread.  I forget the name of
> Squeak's notion of a "deferred action," but I can find it later if there
> is a need - I suspect you or one of our peers will be able to provide
> the relevant selector name.  My primary contribution is to ask whether
> you have considered it.  I tend to queue GUI updates whether they need
> it or not ;)

The selector is WorldState class>>addDeferredUIMessage:

See also http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=1578 if MVC consistency is
if interest.

Dave



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