[squeak-dev] [Question] How do I use the OmniBrowser?

Norbert Hartl norbert at hartl.name
Wed Sep 24 09:44:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:21 +0200, hh2 at lexdb.net wrote:
> Hello
> 
> How do I open an OmniBrowser? 
> 
> - There is no entry in the "World menu", entry "open..."
> - OBBrowser open
>      gives a Walkbalk window
> 
> 
> 
> - I use Squeak 3.10.2
> - I have installed OmniBrowser-Morphic version 0.5 through the package
> "Universe".
> - Is the version installed the correct one - there are many to choose
> from - the one I have chosen seems attractive because of the high
> version number.
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions
> 
Open a class brower from the menu. Press the menu icon in the window
title between "x" and the title "System Browser". The last entry is
called "Choose new default Browser"

hope that helps.

Norbert
> 
> Hannes Hirzel
> 
> 
> References: 
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5646
> 1. Meta-Driven Browsers (2007)
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Berg07cOmnibrowser.pdf
> 2. The OmniBrowser Reference (2007)
> http://bergel.eu/download/OmnibrowserReference.pdf* (an extension of
> 1)
> 
> Question: Is there other documentation on the OmniBrowser available?
> (The documentation above is comprehensive, it describes the design of
> the OmniBrowser framework and three applications. So in particular
> some installation notes would be appreciated.)
> 
> 
> Remark: I like the ObjectFinder
> http://decomp.ulb.ac.be/frdricpluquet/personalstuff/theobjectfinder/
> which is a different package but based on the OmniBrowser framework
> and seems to be useful as it shows fields and methods. It replaces the
> standard inspector. So inspecting an object brings up an ObjectFinder.




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