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<p>Hi Ralph,</p>
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<p>nice idea. I'm currently refactoring all the Inspectors (I hope we can review them soon, and I wish to commit them into the inbox ASAP), and I already implemented the same idea. Coming soon :-)</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Christoph</p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Ralph Boland <rpboland@gmail.com><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2020 22:49:29<br>
<b>An:</b> squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [squeak-dev] variable assignments button/hotkeys (again)</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Not long ago I posted about the variable assignments button.<br>
It generated an interesting discussion but I don't think in the end it will<br>
result in any change to the operation of Squeak.<br>
<br>
Let me make a slight variation on this discussion.<br>
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In the Inspector/Debugger the instance variables of the class being<br>
inspected are displayed in a window and any one of these variables can<br>
be selected/inspected.<br>
Then using a menu or hotkey one can invoke:<br>
StringHolder>>browseVariableReferences<br>
or<br>
StringHolder>>browseVariableAssignments<br>
<br>
These commands bring up a selection window where one chooses one of the instance<br>
variables of the class of the selected variable. Then one of the<br>
methods above is invoked<br>
on the instance variable you chose.<br>
<br>
This was counterintuitive to me so I added two new menu-items/hotkeys:<br>
<br>
('selected variable references... (u)'<br>
browseSelectedVariableReferences)<br>
and<br>
('selected variable assignments... (A)'<br>
browseSelectedVariableAssignments)<br>
<br>
These commands act like the cooresponding previous commands except that,<br>
instead of bringing up a selection window for the user to select the<br>
variable to use,<br>
the selected variable of the class being inspected is used (and the class being<br>
inspected is used instead of the class of the selected variable).<br>
<br>
This feature is more intuitive to me and I have found it quite useful.<br>
<br>
I have attached the necessary code as .st files in case anybody would like to<br>
try it out. These are filed out from Linux but I assume they load as<br>
is to Windows or Mac.<br>
Feel free to make any changes you feel necessary and if it gets added to the<br>
next version of Squeak, great!<br>
<br>
If you try it out let me know what you think.<br>
<br>
Thanks for reading<br>
<br>
Ralph Boland rpboland@gmail.com<br>
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