Hi Matthias,

Its great to see work in this area!

Most likely you get into an endless loop because your logging behavior  
triggers another redraw.
What you can try is to add an instance variable (or global) and use it  
as a counter, or you could log to a file.

HTH,
Adrian


On May 2, 2008, at 12:03 , Matthias Berth wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I am trying to find out why browsers get slower when you open more of
> them in Squeak 3.9 (see previous emails). One theory is that hidden
> browsers are redrawn. I'd like to test that by making a note on the
> Transcript every time a browser window gets redrawn. I have tried to
> override SystemWindow>>fullRedrawOn: aCanvas. Unfortunately, the image
> locks up when I try to accept a non-trivial variation. I have tried
> e.g.
>
> fullDrawOn: aCanvas
> super fullDrawOn: aCanvas
> self title. "Hangs."
>
> Sometimes I am able to accept more complicated variants of this, but
> invariably I ended up with a hanging mage. I have tried to write to
> transcript only if I am inside certain type of window, in order to
> avoid redrawing loops for the transcript window. That failed because I
> ws not able to accept these variants of fullDrawOn:.
>
> Anything else I can try to count redraws?
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthias
>