Thanks Bert,
I have look a bit more at that. Should the green spot have done what I
wanted or expected ?
Gary


>Gary McGovern wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> last night I opened an inspector for an object but wanted to watch 4
>> instance variables concurrently and so used the green duplicate spot to
>> make another 3 inspectors. But only the original inspector would update
and
>> I spent quite some modifying code until I realised that I was getting
wrong
>> answers from the 3 non-updating duplicate inspectors.
>> 
>> This is the second problem I've had with the green spot in the last
>> week.(the other being a running movie morph). 
>> 
>> Is this a known issue ? What is happening ?
>
>The green handle performs a *very deep* copy of the object - in fact, 
>when copying the inspector it creates a copy of the inspected object, 
>too. If you change the original object, only the first inspector will 
>update, since only the first inspected object is changed.
>
>To "duplicate" an inspector select "self" and press "cmd-i".
>
>-- 
>    Bert
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