Hi Sophie "itsme213",

have you tried alt-o which "spawns" a method browser on the partly-edited code and "unlocks" the main browser.

/Klaus

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:50:10 +0100, itsme213 wrote:

I frequently start to edit a method, then realize I need to look at or change something elsewhere. The method I was editing will not Accept as-is; and opening a new browser interrupts my flow. What is best practice here? Anything equivalent to a tabbed browser, or "hold this partly-edited code, I'll be right back" ?

Sophie

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:22:25PM -0600, itsme213 wrote:

Just tried it and got: OBDefinitionPanel>> doesNotUnderstand: #spawn

Different version of browser? Not sure I even know what all the variants are :-(

Yes, this feature is not in the omnibrowser. I submitted a bug report: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6806 . Omnibrowser is a rewrite of the old browser tool, and is the default in recent squeak-dev images. It is not installed by default in basic images.

I don't know of any other way to do this that the omnibrowser supports, so you will have to open another browser.

To change what browser is the default, open the window menu on the browser (just right of the close button in the title bar), and select 'Choose new default Browser'. #Browser is the old tool, and #OBMultipleSelectionBrowserAdaptor is the default in squeak-dev.

After you do that, World > open... > (class browser / system browser) will open your preferred browser. Unfortunately, dragging a browser out of the Tools flap will always be an OmniBrowser; this does not respect your preferred browser setting.