David,

The five windows that are eluding you are all related to the default "standard parts bin".  Squeak maintains a prototype of the parts bin in memory so that one can be quickly produced upon request via "veryDeepCopy" of this prototype.

If you need to get rid of those SystemWindow instances for some reason, you can do so by evaluating:

   ScriptingSystem resetStandardPartsBin

This will nil out the only reference to the parts-bin-prototype, so that after the next garbage collect you should find the SystemWindow objects gone.  Of course, as soon as anyone subsequently requests a new parts bin, a fresh prototype will be created.

(For those that may not have noticed, if you bring up a parts bin [via the "authoring tools" menu in a morphic project] and look through its pages, you'll come upon a page that offers a browser, a workspace, a file-browser, etc.  If it suits your style to keep a parts bin up, you may find this to be a convenient way to launch such tools.)

  -- Scott



At 5:19 PM -0800 1/1/99, Pennell's wrote:
>Start with a virgin 2.3Beta.
>
>Close all of the windows.
>Open a workspace.
>
>Smalltalk garbageCollect.
>SystemWindow allInstances inspect.
>
>There are 5 SystemWindow's:
>- System Browser
>-  Workspace
>- BackStreet HD:Squeak 2.3
>- scripting area
>- assembly window
>
>I've tried a lot of things over the last few hours to get them to go away.
>If anybody figures it out - please let me know.
>
>I'm having a similar problem with my T-gen port and hope the problems
>are related.
>
>-david