[squeak-dev] global World cooling

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Dec 7 01:15:43 UTC 2017


On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 09:31:03PM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> David,
> Here is what happened last month when trying to do this:
> 
> WorldWindow test2.
> 
> Trying to restore image sanity thru emergency evaluator is not for faint
> hearted...
> 
> I could not reproduce the problem this month
> (but the window is not much usable, especially once opened in full screen,
> the cursor position has an upsetting offset... be prepared to close the
> image without saving)
> 
> I presume that not reproducing the emergency is one of the good side effect
> of reducing global World pressure.

I wish that I could take credit for the improvement, but I do not think that
I did anything that would fix any bugs in this area.

On the other hand, it may be that having less reliance on globals will make
such a problem easier to debug the next time it happens.

Dave



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