Hi,
Try executing this:
HelpBrowser initialize

Best,
Karl



On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 8:18 AM Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow! Thanks!!! =) =) =)
> But I've tried to put these five lines
>
>   sm := SimpleSwitchMorph new.
>   sm openInWorld.
>   bm := SimpleButtonMorph new.
>   bm openInWorld.
>   bm position: bm position + (0 at 32).
>
> in a topic window, and then execute the first four lines in a "do it",
> then the fifth line in another "do it"... when I tried that I got an
> error in this method,
>
>   HelpBrowser >> bindingOf:
>
> because it tried to execute
>
>   bindings includesKey: aString
>
> with bindings being nil... can you fix that?
>
>   Thanks in advance! =)
>     Eduardo Ochs
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 03:27, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> See change set in attachment for adding dynamic bindings to HelpBrowser.
>> It's a proof of concept :-)
>>
>> Best,
>> Karl
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 9:42 AM Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Karl,
>>>
>>> > In HelpBrowser you must declare the variables before using them.
>>> > (...)
>>> > HelpBrowser does not implement dynamic binding of variables.
>>>
>>> Yes - my first idea was to ask here what I needed to change in my
>>> class TerseGuideHelp to make the "workspace" of its help browser use
>>> dynamic biding of variables... but then I spent some hours trying to
>>> find the answer myself, and I stumbled on a more low-level question
>>> that I found much more askworthy...
>>>
>>> > You can right click on a Workspace window and a HelpBrowser window
>>> > and inspect the model and see the differences.
>>>
>>> I did that. Are these differences obvious to a trained eye? They
>>> weren't to me.
>>>
>>> > Also browse class Workspace and look at access to variable
>>> > 'bindings'.
>>>
>>> This may be a pointer to searching tools that I need to learn. I saw
>>> that if I click on "variables" and then on "bindings" I get a list of
>>> the methods in Workspace that access the variable "bindings"... I also
>>> tried to fileOut the class Workspace and to read it in Emacs, and I
>>> found the same occurrences.
>>>
>>> Here is an educated guess. Is the method "hasBindingOf:" the main
>>> piece needed to make a mini-workspace support dynamic variables? If
>>> so, how, exactly? Is there a part of the compiler that calls
>>> "hasBindingOf:" when it sees an unknown variable? I couldn't find
>>> it...
>>>
>>>   Cheers,
>>>     Eduardo Ochs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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