[Cuis-dev] batched updates

[Mark Volkmann]

Thank you SO MUCH for explaining that!
Wrapping some of my code in a block and sending #fork to it works perfectly.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM Weslleymberg Lisboa via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi, Mark
>
> It seems your method is delaying UI updades. AFAIK our code runs on the
> UI process by default, so long-running computations will block the UI.
> You can see this by evaluating:
>
> 1 to: 10 do: [ :n |
>         n print.
>         (Delay forSeconds: 1) wait. ]
>
> On Windows, my transcript updates but the rest of the UI freezes completly.
>
> To avoid this you can start the long-running method on a new process:
>
> [ 1 to: 10 do: [ :n |
>         n print.
>         (Delay forSeconds: 1) wait. ]] fork.
>
> If you want to control when to start your computation, you can call
> #newProcess instead of #fork and save the returned process so you can
> call #resume on it later.
>
>
> Em 17/01/2025 09:48, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev escreveu:
> > I have a long-running method (a couple of seconds) that is invoked by
> > clicking a button. At the beginning of the method I want to write to the
> > Transcript and update the text in a LabelMorph. But it seems both
> > updates get batched and I don't see the results until my method finishes
> > executing. Is there a way I can "flush" those updates so they take place
> > immediately? I see that Transcript has a flush method, but sending that
> > message didn't cause the Transcript to update immediately.
> >
> > --
> > R. Mark Volkmann
> > Object Computing, Inc.
> >
>
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R. Mark Volkmann
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