Fork can be used to avoid freezing issues unless of course they are caused by the VM. VM usually prefer to crash.
I have used fork once to load a very glitchy package when StHub was misbeheaving. You do not need a spinner in this case because you can keep using the image. But if you want to find out if the process indeed has frozen in that case I can see its need. On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 5:56 PM Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > is there an easy was to do some thing that is constantly changing? so if > my image freezes (to export a 1gb ston file for example) I can see when > it’s done. Or maybe there is a way to send a mac notification from Pharo? > > Cheers. > Uko >
