On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Marr <smalltalk@stefan-marr.de> wrote:

On 21 Jun 2012, at 15:11, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> I want to see the animation of the growing morph.
> Instead I get nothing.
>
> To get the animation, you have to enclose the loop in a forked process,
> but it is inelegant:

Isn't the doIt evaluated in the UI processes?

It is!

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I bet there is a Morphic API that allows you to process the next drawing request.

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Hmm, that sounds like forcing the framework... I think that having a second process is the right way...

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If the doIt is not evaluated in the UI process, just to a `Processor yield` after every step you want to see.

Sometimes, when processing in different process, the correct way is to send updates to the UI process through

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Cheers,
Guille

Best regards
Stefan

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