CollectingSharedQueueStream.st
changeset 501 3299cf782635
parent 500 f1df3a589fb4
child 502 1d4a576e4955
--- a/CollectingSharedQueueStream.st	Wed Mar 05 14:50:52 1997 +0100
+++ b/CollectingSharedQueueStream.st	Wed Mar 05 15:31:35 1997 +0100
@@ -2,24 +2,27 @@
 	instanceVariableNames:'contents readPosition writePosition dataAvailable closed'
 	classVariableNames:''
 	poolDictionaries:''
-	category:'Collections-Ordered'
+	category:'Streams'
 !
 
 !CollectingSharedQueueStream class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 documentation
 "
-    This class combines the functionality of a growable collection
-    with sharedQueue and double-stream-like behavior.
+    This class provides a buffering mechanism between a reader and a writer
+    process (i.e. it is much like a sharedQueue), but remembers the data as
+    written by the writer internally, providing indexed access to elements.
+
     The reader side may read from it using #next, and possibly access
     elements via #at:.
-    Reading may start immediately, but will block until enough elements
+    Reading/accessing may start immediately, but will block until enough elements
     have been added by another process, the writer.
+
     Instances of this class may be useful to start processing on
     big document/data collection immediately, while the data is still being
-    read; a concrete application is the HTMLDocumentReader, which starts
-    processing and displaying the document while the rest is still being
-    read.
+    read by another thread; 
+    A concrete application is the HTMLDocumentReader, which is being changed to
+    start processing and displaying the document while the rest is still being read.
 
     [author:]
         Claus Gittinger
@@ -167,5 +170,5 @@
 !CollectingSharedQueueStream class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic2/CollectingSharedQueueStream.st,v 1.1 1997-03-05 13:50:52 cg Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic2/CollectingSharedQueueStream.st,v 1.2 1997-03-05 14:31:35 cg Exp $'
 ! !