Hi,
if one uses a at doit transcript then no special action is required to get
output to appear beyond sending flush to Transcript right? So any solution
that requires special action to get the moronic transcript to work us broken.
We should fix the transcript, not expect every application to work around a bug.
Eliot (phone)
On May 8, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Alain Rastoul <alf.mmm....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 08/05/2015 11:34, stepharo a écrit :
>> Hi guys
>>
>> the Transcript in Pharo is that it's not asynchronous so I can't use it
>> in VM development to show the current progress of the simulation. For
>> example:
>> 1 to: 100 do: [ :i |
>> 0.1 seconds asDelay wait.
>> Transcript show: 'x'. ]
>> => on Squeak, this shows a x every 0.1 second in the Transcript
>> => on Pharo, nothing happens during 10 seconds then all the x are shown.
>>
>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?15515
> Yes, as do it are evaluated in the World morphic process, running in a forked
> process or sending World doOneCycle in the loop solve the problem.
>
> Probably in squeak, in Transcript this is done somewhere under the hood.
>
> via dependents ?
>
> TranscriptStream>>endEndtry
> "Display all the characters since the last endEntry, and reset the stream"
> self semaphore critical:[
> self changed: #appendEntry.
> self reset.
> ].
>
> Object>>changed: aParameter
> self dependents do: [:aDependent | aDependent update: aParameter]
>
> And probably not doOnecycle since you cannot do anything else during
> execution (clicking or moving windows).
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Alain
>
>
