June 30, 2015
11:53 a.m.
stepharo wrote
Polling is a bad idea from an architecture point of view. And dated :)
While in this case that might be true (I haven't looked at the code), IMHO it's overstated to say that polling is always a bad idea. For exploratory spikes, mockups, throwaway tools, etc it can be very useful. Morphic stepping is based on the idea that polling makes it easy to observe underlying objects that are not designed for UI support (no change/update, announcements, etc), and may be inexpensive if the widget doesn't have to be redrawn. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Chess-Game-UpdatingStringMorph-tp4834675p4834864.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.