[Newbies] Re: Timer in Morph
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Feb 4 21:37:38 UTC 2010
Garret Raziel wrote:
> hi, can anyone help me with some code? I want to have a Morph object
> that change his color by values that squeak gets from SerialPort. I have
> wroted code of getting values and changing color but I dunno how to do
> that the morph change its color forever. If i call method "AMorph
> changeColor" in some to:do: it stucks and shows only last color. I want
> to use some kind of timer, that will call this method every second and
> updates this Morph. what must I use?
Use stepping, i.e.,
MyMorph>>wantsSteps
"Yes, please"
^true
MyMorph>>stepTime
"1/sec please"
^1000 "msecs"
MyMorph>>step
self changeColor.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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