A different view of Smalltalk

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Thu Aug 19 16:31:07 UTC 1999


On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:48:01 -0400 (EDT) Doug Way <dway at mat.net> wrote:
>Also, as some additional food for thought, you might try to integrate this
>tool with the debugger, since the currently highlighted bit of source in
>the debugger as you stepped through it would correspond to one of your
>boxes (SyntaxMorphs)

One thought I had along those lines was to replace or supplement expressions with their result as they were evaluated. That way you could see the code in action as you stepped through it:

(Display boundingBox extent * 0.8) truncated
	would become:
((0 at 0 corner: 1005 at 714) extent * 0.8) truncated
	would become:
((1005 at 714) * 0.8) truncated
	would become:
(804.0 at 571.2) truncated
	would become:
 804 at 571

all within the original box structure. But, for now, I'm going to puzzle over Alan's suggestions.

Cheers,
Bob





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