Hello all-

I was playing with making some funky visual effects for Dynapad, and
haven't been having much luck.  The problem I keep running into is the
problem of getting Morphic to update.  For example, I've played with
having a translucent pane slide down like in OS X among other things.  For
eye candy worry worts, it isn't something that will likely make the cut,
just a little fun. :P

For example, if I execute the following code:

| m |
m _ Morph new openInWorld.
m position: 0 at 0.
0 to: (World width - m width) do: [ :n | m position: n at 0 ].

I just end up with the morph at the upper right hand of the screen, with
no animation.  This problem has also come up with updating a
PluggableTextMorph while there is processing going on.

This is probably something which has been discussed here a number of
times, and is probably pretty simple. The only thing I've seen so far is
the #step system, which works well for this, but there has to be another
way- subclassing every morph you want to animate a little seems to be a
bit much. I've tried calling step to try to force an update, but same
behavior.

I guess I could use mixins if there is a package which provides that, or
implement a new method on Morph- #supplamentalStep: aBlock which sends
#value to block at the end of beginning of each step method.  But both
seem suboptimal.

Can you tell all of my Morphic programming has been very... stationary? :)

Regards,
Aaron

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