Squeak 3.9 Alpha Debuggers and yellow dot cursors

Ingo Hohmann iho at gmx.de
Fri Dec 10 03:38:25 UTC 2004


Ned Konz wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2004 2:17 am, Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
>>>whenever I get a debugger window (e.g. through self halt) the cursors
>>>changes to a pointer with a yellow dot at its head. While the
>>>yellow-dot-cursor is visible, squeak slows down notably.
>>>Now when I click somewhere a blue rectangle is drawn and instantly
>>>deleted again.
>>>After that everything is back to normal.
<...>

> What's happening may be that the yellow dot is some kind of HandleMorph that 
> has somehow become visible. Since these tend to be pretty busy (executing a 
> block on every step) it can slow you down considerably.
> 
> Ah, wait a minute: the blue rectangle, eh?
> 
> The blue rectangle is the new "easy selection" indication, I'd guess. I 
> haven't used it, but it's possible that its code is the culprit.

Seems about right, I just now noticed the same blue rectangle around 
Windows with the MorphicHalos.

(Info added to Mantis Bug Report 635)

Ingo




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