[squeak-dev] bad MessageTrace regression (was: The Trunk: Morphic-mt.1652.mcz)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 23:05:07 UTC 2022


Thanks!

Will test later tonight.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:00 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> Hi Chris --
>
> Done. Regression fixed. See Tools-mt.1101 and Morphic-mt.1844 in Trunk.
> Please report back any issues with that.
>
> Feel free to revert the backported change in 5.3 (TextEditor) if you think
> it's better. I need to focus on 6.0 for now. :-) I will move Morphic-cmm.1839
> from Inbox to Treated.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 10.01.2022 16:33:52 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
> Hi Chris --
>
> I have an idea on how to fix this regression again. Stay tuned. :-)
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 10.01.2022 11:17:39 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
> Hi Chris --
>
> Aha. Well, these TextEditor changes are obviously in no direct
> relationship with the MessageTrace tool. An indirection through the model
> instead a global call to #systemNavigation are *always* favorable since
> more expressive and configurable. A custom model such as MessageTrace
> should be able to easily provide the desired behavior.
>
> You inbox suggestions via Morphic-cmm.1838 and 1839 are therefore not
> acceptable. I will try to solve this issue in MessageTrace directly.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> P.S.: Your definition of "execution flow" is somewhat brittle since there
> are is no dynamic trace data involved. You rely on static analysis only. :-)
>
> Am 10.01.2022 01:41:17 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> I'm doing some testing in trunk and just noticed this.  When selecting a
> message in the code pane and browsing senders, **it must always spawn a new
> MessageTrace** instead of mangling the to the list at the top.
>
> The trace at the top is supposed to represent execution flow between the
> messages in the list, and NOT different random messages that derail the
> trace and make it a complete mess.
>
> I also noticed this has been backported to 5.3.
>
>  - Chris
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:32 AM <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>
>> Marcel Taeumel uploaded a new version of Morphic to project The Trunk:
>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Morphic-mt.1652.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Morphic-mt.1652
>> Author: mt
>> Time: 27 April 2020, 9:31:57.493264 am
>> UUID: d23bbde5-4e42-3547-960d-39994fc21f56
>> Ancestors: Morphic-ct.1651
>>
>> Fixes regression #browseIt in TraceMessages, too. Now all recent hick-ups
>> with TraceMessages are gone. There are still some hooks missing such as
>> #browseAllAccessTo:from:.
>>
>> However, I think we should push down those backstops from Object to Model.
>>
>> Note that I already backported this fix to Squeak 5.3.
>>
>> =============== Diff against Morphic-ct.1651 ===============
>>
>> Item was changed:
>>   ----- Method: TextEditor>>browseIt (in category 'menu messages') -----
>>   browseIt
>>         "Launch a browser for the current selection, if appropriate."
>>
>>         Preferences alternativeBrowseIt ifTrue: [^ self
>> browseClassFromIt].
>>
>>         self lineSelectAndEmptyCheck: [^ morph flash].
>>
>>         "First, try to show all accesses to instance or class variables."
>>         self selectedInstanceVariable ifNotNil:
>>                 [:nameToClass | self systemNavigation
>>                         browseAllAccessesTo: nameToClass key
>>                         from: nameToClass value].
>>         self selectedClassVariable ifNotNil:
>> +               [:binding | self model browseAllCallsOn: binding].
>> -               [:binding | self systemNavigation browseAllCallsOn:
>> binding].
>>
>>         "Then, either browse the class (from a binding) or all
>> implementors of a selector."
>>         self selectedBinding ifNotNil:
>>                 [:binding | ^ self systemNavigation browseClass: binding].
>>         self selectedSelector ifNotNil:
>> +               [:selector | ^ self model browseAllImplementorsOf:
>> selector].
>> -               [:selector | ^ self systemNavigation
>> browseAllImplementorsOf: selector].
>>
>>         morph flash!
>>
>>
>>
>
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