>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Way <doug.way at riskmetrics.com> writes:

Doug> One thing you can do if you need to set a halt in a frequently called
Doug> method is to define a global in a workspace such as:

Doug> FirstHalt := true.

Doug> And then in your Delay>>wait method, insert a halt like this:

Doug> FirstHalt ifTrue: [FirstHalt := false.  self halt].

Doug> This will only halt the first time it runs across this.  Another thing
Doug> you can do is set up a shiftHalt method that checks to see if shift is
Doug> pressed, but that's a bit more work.

There's one of these in the image already!

        ProtoObject>>doOnlyOnce:

Go look!

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