Anders Conradi <beque at telia.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Here I am again with another newbie question. I am sure this is as 
> silly as my last one, but the answer eludes me.
> 
> Let's say I have constructed an object. I also have a Workspace open 
> (or an inspector on another unrelated object). How can I place a 
> reference to the first object into the workspace, for example to use as 
> an argument to a message?
> 
> I want to reference an object in a context where it is not bound to any 
> variable that I know of. I don't want to dig through some data 
> structures by code to find the object, but rather pick the object to 
> reference with the mouse.
> 
> Failing that, is there anything like the outliners in self? With 
> support for linking objects to slots by dragging small blocks with the 
> mouse.
You can drag and drop  morphs on the workspace to get a reference
to it. Get the window menu and select the preference.
Karl