Dear Chris,
Long ago I was puzzled about this comment in the repository:
Name: Ma proxy support-cmm.30 Author: cmm Time: 16 July 2007, 9:54:02 pm UUID: 771174c7-a9ef-a641-948b-6f2108e86d9d Ancestors: Ma proxy support-cmm.26, Ma proxy support-kph.29
- Merged Keith Hodges changes for MagmaMutatingProxy's to initially display in explorers indicated as a proxy (even though it still mutates just as soon). This is very useful for seeing how far the ReadStrategy went. Thanks Keith!
Essentially you were saying that exploring, for which my submitted changes were intended, was not working. However it was working fine for me, in Gjallar (Squeak 3.8) So imagine my annoyance when I discover that in Squeak 3.10 your comment above makes sense. i.e. it does not work at all!
After investigation it appears that the culprit is the preference #visualExplorer! The visual explorer's attempt to obtain an icon from the Proxy reifies the proxy before you get a chance to view it in the explorer at all.
So as an initial workaround we can disable the #visualExplorer preference.
I will post a proper fix to the repo.
cheers
Keith
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