How do you handle forked operations from TestCase point of view, when the test expects a value to assert from an asynchronous operation?
On Jan 25, 2018 10:41, "Andrei Stebakov" <lisper...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Sven, got it > > On Jan 25, 2018 10:36, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > >> Hi Andrei, >> >> > On 25 Jan 2018, at 16:26, Andrei Stebakov <lisper...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have written some code that has a deep nested loop of calling >> ZnClient>>get. >> > In the loop I also execute Transcript>>show but I can only see the >> transcript output after a few seconds when the loop is finished. During all >> that time while the loop is busy the UI is also unresponsive. >> > Is there a way to execute code in some sort of asynchronous way? >> >> The problem is not specific to using ZnClient, it is with every loop you >> execute in the UI thread: the Transcript output is not updated (as it is >> the UI thread itself that has to do the drawing). >> >> For example, try >> >> 1 to: 10 do: [ :i | Transcript crShow: i. 5 seconds wait ]. >> >> The solution is to run you long running code in another thread, like this >> >> [ 1 to: 10 do: [ :i | Transcript crShow: i. 5 seconds wait ] ] fork. >> >> HTH, >> >> Sven >> >
