[BUG] 'chase pointers' only works for 'self' in inspector (was Re: How to explore a Project saving problem, in great detail)

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Thu Jul 15 00:36:34 UTC 2004


On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 08:30 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Am 12.07.2004 um 22:11 schrieb Ned Konz:
>> I rarely have much success using the "chase pointers" choice (the 
>> Pointer Finder)
>
> Me neither, until Andreas pointed (pun intended) out to me that you 
> have to select "self". The problem is that the menu entry is displayed 
> for all slots of an object, but the chase only works for "self".

Seems like this qualifies as a bug, especially since the similar 
'objects pointing to this value' works on any variable selected in the 
inspector.  Ought to be fixable, I'd think.

- Doug




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