Re: doTkEvents

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "MD" == Marcus G Daniels <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "FW" == Fred Wan <address@hidden> writes:
FW> When using GUISwarm (Java) to, e.g., display the control panel, an
FW> obligatory but obscure message is sent.  [..]

MD> -doTkEvents is a message that processes any input or output events
MD> of the Tk toolkit.  Tk is what currently is used to do most of the
MD> GUI stuff in Swarm.  Without it, these events would just queue up
MD> and never get processed, resulting in a static, unresponsive user
MD> interface.  By sending -doTkEvents every so often, you're letting
MD> Tk get a chance to keep the user interface up-to-date.

For what it's worth, so it's not quite so obscure, I've added the
documentation (to the effect of above) for the doTkEvents method into
the Swarm sources so it will appear in the generated documentation for
both Java and Objective C in the next release of Swarm.

Alex
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Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (http://allele5.biol.berkeley.edu)
  & Swarm Development Group, Santa Fe, New Mexico (http://www.swarm.org) 

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