On Wednesday 04 December 2002 05:09 pm, Derek Brans wrote:
> I want an object to do something every 10 minutes.
>
> I have the following code:
>
> startTimer
>
> 	| delay |
>
> 	delay _ Delay forMilliseconds: 10 * 60 * 1000.
> 	[delay wait. true] whileTrue: [self save]
>
> My question: is it save safe to call self startTimer from
> initialize? 

Not unless you want whatever called initialize to stop doing whatever 
it was doing.

> If so, why doesn't the process that called "new" get
> trapped? If not, how should startTimer be called?

You should start another process:

startTimer
       [  | delay |
        delay _ Delay forSeconds: 10 * 60.
        [ delay wait. self save ] repeat ] forkAt: Processor 
userBackgroundPriority.

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