hi squeakers,

finally I got some time to play with the squeak environment - kudos to 
you all.
Please apologize, but I am a smalltalk beginnner.

I wanted to know how to define a new Method on the fly and, thanks to 
the terrific inspectors and browsers I found out that the Compiler / 
Parser can be used to compile text to parse trees and optionally hang in 
methods in classes.

"create a new class"
Object subclass: #TestClass  .....

"create a new method node and add it to TestClass's MethodDictionary"
methodNode := Compiler new
    compile: (ReadStream on:
       'showOnTranscript anObject
          Transcript show: anObject.'
    in: TestClass
    notifying: nil
    ifFail: [Smalltalk beep]
.

This works very well, if I say for instance:

TestClass new showOnTranscript: 'hello from showOnTranscript in TestClass'.

I get the results printed on the Transcript.
The funny thing is though, that the method is not shown in the 
ObjectBrowser/ClassBrowser.
But the #subclass method creates a new Entry in the Browser.

I have also tried to create a CompiledMethod with the generate method 
and hang it in the TestClass manually via Behavior>>addSelector, but had 
no luck with that too.

so I am just curious, and would like to know, how to do it right :-)
-- Jakob