But this is how Morphic drawing works. If only your text morph changed, then only that morph will be redrawn. And since no events are processed in that loop, this should be the case.

- Bert -

On 15.11.2012, at 09:16, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
>    thanks, but no thanks <blush>.  I want to see the update as fast as possible, even if it flickers like crazy.  I don't want to display the whole world, just the text morph in question. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
> This works for me:
> 
> doStepSeveral
> 
>     10 timesRepeat: [
>         self doStep.
>         self changed: #contentsSelection.
>         World displayWorldSafely.
>         (Delay forMilliseconds: 100) wait.    "in case you want to see each step"
>     ]
>     
>     
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> On 11/14/12 1:26 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>>     I submitted a run until feature for the debugger to the Squeak inbox recently and would commit it to trunk except that I'd like the option of having the selection update on each step.  But I can't see how to do that.  I *think* selection update is done with a callback here in Debugger>>contents:selection:
>> 
>> 
>>  Smalltalk isMorphic ifTrue:
>>  [World
>>  addAlarm: #changed:
>>  withArguments: #(contentsSelection)
>>  for: self
>>  at: (Time millisecondClockValue + 200)].
>> 
>> And I'm not sure how this causes the selection to update.  Is it part of text morph draw or a separate thing?  This is too convoluted to look through.  So perhaps someone can help e.  If I want the selection to redraw what's the minimum action necessary.  This is as part of a loop that looks like
>> 
>>  [self selectedContext == context
>>   and: [(value := receiver with: context executeMethod: method) == false]] whileTrue:
>>  [self doStep].
>> 
>> i.e. after the doStep I'd like to force the code pane to update its selection.
>> 
>> AdvThanksance
>> -- 
>> best,
>> Eliot
>> 
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> best,
> Eliot
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