> Cron do: [some activity] every: someTimeInterval
>
> I may very well have overlooked what I was looking for.
>
> I can definitely put something together that works from what I saw.
>
> But is there a favored way to handle something like this in Squeak.
If you're using Morphic, you can use stepping (you can step other
messages besides #step, and at different rates).
Look at the methods whose names contain the string 'startStepping'.
Otherwise, you can do (as Julian suggested):
[ delay := Delay forSeconds: 123456.
 [ delay wait. self doSomething ] repeat ] fork.
Remember that you should use synchronization of some sort
(SharedQueues are the easiest to use) between threads (especially, you
can't call any Morphic methods directly from a non-UI thread).
There is a way to communicate from background threads to Morphic, and
it's called #addDeferredUIMessage: . I extended this with a
SystemController subclass for the same purpose in MVC (as part of the
ProcessBrowser).