Hi all,

short version of my question:

  How do I use MenuItemMorph>>#debugAction?

Now the long version. I was trying to use the debugger to understand
how some "demo morphs" are created, starting by this one:

  World -> new morph... -> from alphabetical list -> L-N -> LineMorph

I used the debug tool of the halo to copy the MenuItemMorph of that
menu entry to a globally-acessible place, and then in a workspace I
copied that to a variable local to that workspace called
itemLineMorph. I was playing with that variable, and I did a "browse
protocol" on it and I was reading its results. One of them, that
looked especially interesting, was:

  MenuItemMorph >> #debugAction

I tried this,

  itemLineMorph debugAction.

and it opens the debugger - really neat! But if I tell the debugger to
"proceed" it halts a few steps ahead, with this error:

  UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #hand
  TheWorldMenu>>newMorphOfClass:event:
  [] in MenuItemMorph>>invokeWithEvent:
  CursorWithMask(Cursor)>>showWhile:
  MenuItemMorph>>invokeWithEvent:
  MenuItemMorph>>doButtonAction
  [] in MenuItemMorph>>debugAction
  [] in FullBlockClosure(BlockClosure)>>newProcess

the problem is that in

  TheWorldMenu>>newMorphOfClass:event:

the argument evt is nil... if I set evt by hand there to a keyboard
event that holds a CR and then tell the debugger to proceed,
everything works - I get a LineMorph on the screen.

So: what is the _right_ way to run MenuItemMorph>>#debugAction? And
what is the right way to write something similar to this,

  itemLineMorph debugAction.

but that works out of the box?

  Thanks in advance!
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/eev-squeak.html
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