German,
> I´m running a low priority process in the background (Dolphin
> Smalltalk X6) and everything works fine until I try to use a context
> menu (for example by right clicking a class in the class browser), then
> the system hangs and the menu freezes on top of all my windows
> (including those outside of Dolphin). I cannot revover from this in any
> way.
>
> Is this a bug?
I don't think so, if I am following you correctly. A menu has very
little business in a background process. Depending on what you are
trying to achieve, you can signal semaphores, use a Mutex and #critical:
or a SharedQueue to share something between processes, or (perhaps the
first thing you should consider) queue a deferred action. For the
latter, see #queueDeferredAction: and any senders in BlockClosure.
You might want to take a look at my TimedEvaluators package.
Have a good one,
Bill
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