On 21.04.2012, at 13:25, David Graham wrote:
> On 4/21/12 2:16 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 20.04.2012, at 22:14, David Graham wrote:
>>
>>> It took me almost 20 years, but I finally thought of something interesting
>>> to put on the Internet. ;)
>>>
>>> I've been experimenting with a BeagleBone (embedded ARM V7 platform) and
>>> was able to get Squeak 4.2 running without a problem. I put together a
>>> simple demo with a blog post and video, and thought the Squeak list may be
>>> interested (also, please let me know if I have any technical errors in my
>>> smalltalk code explanation).
>>>
>>> http://blog.unthinkable.org/
>>>
>>> -David
>> Very nice!
>>
>> There is one flaw in your code. You should never run Morphic code outside
>> the UI process. But your "appendValue:" message does that. The correct way
>> would be to write
>>
>> WorldState addDeferredUIMessage: [graph1 appendValue: lightValue]
>>
>> That will cause the block to be evaluated at the next display cycle.
>>
>> Of course, the proper way to make an updating Morph is to write a new Morph
>> class. Then you could use Morphic's stepping mechanism to read the data and
>> display it.
>
> Thanks Bert! I just started playing with Morphic and didn't know this. (
> also, I just started learning smalltalk last year and mostly working with
> Zinc on Pharo). I was targeting my post at non-smalltalk arduino /
> BeagleBone devs and wanted to keep the syntax as simple as possible, but
> should I update the post?
Well, people learn from examples, and it's better if the examples do not teach
bad style.
Here is a way to use Morphic's stepping properly from a workspace. This uses
the Etoys mechanism of adding methods to an object directly (without having to
make a new class in the browser):
graph1 := GraphMorph new.
graph1 assureUniClass.
graph1 class compile: 'step
self appendValue: 50 atRandom.
super step'.
graph1 class compile: 'stepTime
^50'.
graph1 openInWorld.
graph1 extent: 700@500.
graph1 clear.
This avoids having to create a background process, but I'm not sure if that
makes it more clear to your audience.
- Bert -
>> But for a 10 line hack your code is not bad :)
> I hear this a lot. ;)
>
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