[Newbies] Query about Transcript object

[Ian Oversby]

Hi Ramon,

Thanks for the answers.

On 03/04/07, Ramon Leon <ramon.leon at allresnet.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote the following line of code to display the numbers 1
> > to 200 in the Transcript Window.
> >
> > 1 to: 200 do: [ :x | Transcript show: x ; cr ].
> >
> > The numbers are displayed quite slowly and while they are
> > being displayed, I am unable to perform any other action, for
> > example, click on other Windows to raise them to the front or
> > bring up the context sensitive menu.  What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian
>
> You aren't doing anything wrong.  The Transcript is very slow, it's meant
> for debugging, never worry about speed while printing to the transcript.
> Never print to the transcript when you're worrying about speed.

Is there an alternative way to log information then, that isn't so slow?

> Squeak's UI runs do its on the same thread as the UI thread, so while you
> execute any code in a workspace, expect the whole UI to lockup.

Is there a way to run code in the background so that the UI stays available?

> Ramon Leon
> http://onsmalltalk.com

Thanks,

Ian