> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lex Spoon
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:30 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [CS] workspace bindings viewer
> 
> [snip] 
>(See, my laziness is a feature
> -- it's reuse!)
> 

Awesome.  Uh, my laziness is reuse, too! :)

> I'm sure better UI's and functionalities are possible, but 
> this kind of thing seems like a good idea.  Workspace 
> variables are a very useful tool that many people seem to 
> overlook, and so adding a UI will hopefully help.  Also, it 
> seems silly that I occasionally end up inspecting my 
> workspace in order to hack its bindings; this should be in the UI.

Yes!  It would be very cool to have the flow from "doit in a Workspace"
to "fairly involved script in a Workspace" to "OK I really should create
a class now" helped along by a slick set of UI tools.  I.e., somehow
make a Workspace transform into a class, and browse it :)  Your
workspace-bindings viewer seems like a good start.

> 
> Two other ideas have been floating around that I think are 
> very interesting.
> 
> First, maybe workspaces can be tied to a class somehow, so 
> that workspace variables become instance variables?  Or, 
> maybe browsers can end up being workspaces, as has been 
> proposed elsewhere.
> 
> Second, drag and drop is under-utilized in Squeak's 
> workspaces and inspectors.  Right now it's a pain to get 
> something from an inspector over into a workspace to play 
> with it -- you have to set it in a global variable and then 
> retrieve it.  It would be great if drag and drop worked 
> between inspectors and workspaces.  (And note that with my 
> lazy ahem my reuse, if you make it work between inspectors, 
> then you will get workspaces for free.)

Nifty!  Anybody up for this?  

> 
> Anyway, there are many possibilities in this area, and Squeak 
> is well suited for hacking on development tools.  I look 
> forward to what people come up with!
> 
> 
> -Lex
> 

Cool thoughts, Lex.  Thanks,
Brent