[squeak-dev] incorrect Shout rendering in ObjectExplorer

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon May 4 22:41:10 UTC 2015


Interesting. I wonder when has that changed. Anyway, Shout is not prepared 
for this scenario, so the API has to be changed a bit.

Levente

On Mon, 4 May 2015, Chris Muller wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> In an Explorer you can't evaluate an expression in the context of an Object.
>> That's what an Inspector is for.
>
> Huh?  If I explore, say, Smalltalk, and select the "root" row of the
> explorer, then I can evaluate any expressoins I want in the context of
> the selected object, Smalltalk.
>
> Likewise, I can directly access the selected objects instVars.  For
> example, while the root is selected I can evaluate "globals class" and
> it tells me its an Environment.
>
> The problem, whether I'm in an Explorer or an Inspector, is the new
> Shout color rendering is rendering instVars in the color I've chosen
> for "invalid" (in the Shout style table).
>
> See picture.  I style my "invalid" code an ugly magenta, so it stands
> out.  But I don't want that when its not invalid, of course..
>


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