Re: [Pharo-users] "stepping" a non-morphic object

[Ben Coman]

Igor Stasenko wrote: On 29 April 2014 18:41, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote: Chris Wright wrote > What is the best way to get the step message sent to non-morphs - or is > there a better way in Pharo I'm not sure I understand exactly, but if you want to do it via Morphic stepping, you could implement e.g. ModelTickingMorph which is invisible and has no extent, and steps your model in it's #step. or you could use a process: [ [ myModelObject step. 1 second asDelay wait ] repeat ] fork. except that you then will be also responsible for managing forked process by implementing it.. else it will loop forever, your object will never be GCed, consume CPU & waste memory :) oh.. and each time you test it once more, it will readily spawn another process with same characteristics :) Maybe there should be a SystemStepper / Cron object that can be registered on. cheers -ben