Ross Boylan wrote:

>Poking around my image, I discovered I had some huge objects that were
>the contents of transcripts.
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>I was surprised that Transcript open produces an empty Transcript
>window, even when I'm in the project with the big transcript (a
>Morphic project).  Is there a natural way to get a window that shows
>the existing Transcript contents?
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>Second, what's a good way to clear out the junk?  I see various
>methods that sound in the right neighborhood, but I'm not sure which
>one to use.  A particular concern is that the associated String has
>been grown to about 4Mg, though only about 2Mg is in use.  I want to
>actually free up the memory, not just blank it out or reset the
>transcript counters.
>
>Finally, is there a good way to access the transcript without being in
>the associated Project?  It seems to be in an instance variable for
>which there are no accessors, so the only way to get at it is when it
>gets swapped into Smalltalk at: #Transcript when the project becomes
>active.  (I  don't consider TranscriptStream allInstances and messing
>around in inspectors a good way to access a transcript).
>
>This is in a 3.6ish image, if that matters.
>
>Ross Boylan
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Transcript flush
That should clear up the transcript.
Karl