Class hierarchy topology

Alain Plantec alain.plantec at univ-brest.fr
Wed Feb 6 15:16:53 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 05 February 2008 21:30, Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 	after about a year of switching from Dolphin Smalltalk to Squeak as
> main development platform I still miss to see the hierarchy of classes as
> primary way to navigate the classes in the image.
>
> 	Searching the web I've found Whiskler Browser seems to have (at
> least for classes) the kind of view I miss but I was unable to make it work
> in the 3.10 nor 3.9 images. It loads but when I want to browse a class it
> brings a debugger with: MultiSelectHierarchicalListMorph DNU
> totalScrollRange
>
> 	I love to see the categories *and* hierarchy in, unlike the alt-h
> browser, a dynamic navigational way. It helps me to think about the
> topology in a way categorized classes will never do. It's a birds eye view
> which I need so I can understand the forest shape instead of seeing just
> groups of trees. I think the two views are very important for ST
> developers.
>
> 	Have I alternatives to whisker?
you can try Tamaris.
alain
>
> 	Other browsers that uses as main class navigation pane a tree kind
> of view (ala explorer)?
>
> 	thanks,
>
> Sebastian Sastre
> PD: until now I'm using standard tools plus autocompletion and shout



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