Re: [Newbies] Modal UI

On 05.11.2010, at 23:18, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

In the process of my app's execution, it needs to put up a UI, and pause until the UI returns an object (only this piece of code needs to pause, the rest of the world can keep going). I was thinking of using forks, but FillInTheBlankMorph seems to manually drive the world's doOneCycle while it waits (seems ugly and a little too controlling).

What would be the best way?

Redesign your app so it does not have to pause but is event-driven (or possibly continuation-based). Then just lock the part that should not be interactive.

FillInTheBlank has to do that ugly doOneCycle because it was made to work with non-eventdriven programs.

- Bert -