Re: Some random gibberish

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:10:39 -0500, bob mcwhirter wrote:

>> To keep the animation synchronized with the tower display I could use
>> the ui event queue to store hanoiDiskMovedEvents. Do we need a generic
>> way for any ui to tell the engine to pause? Like a  'step' command in a
>> debugger?
> 
> Hm.
> 
> I definitely won't want a WfmsAdmin.pause() or step() methods.

I agree. This looks like a case where the process if initiating the subsequent
events. 

> Possibly some way to make a particular case explicitly stepped, so then a
> processCase.step() might possibly fire a transition.
> 
> Though, there are significantly more Transitions in the petri than there
> are steps in something like Hanoi.  So, we'd have to be able to step by at
> the Petri-level and at the Idiom level.
> 
> That's entirely possible.  Though, I'm going to say "no" to "can we rewind
> a flow" at this point.  Too many other things higher on the priority list.
> :)

In this case couldn't the gui read the event output (a list, messages,
whatever) and manage it's own playback/replay?

> 
> 	-bob

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