Tim, If there is a colon in one of the arguments (like in a Symbol) then the selector parser gets confused ...
Dale On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > >> As I relearn/learn how to use Pharo, I’m struck by some of the excellent >> changes and confounded by some of the simple things that boggle me. >> >> So, I wanted to follow a path through some message sends - the use of >> #alert:title: in UIManager specifically. >> >> So I browser UIManager, find the method (its subclassResponsiblity) - so >> I find other implementers (cmd+b, cmd+m) - (I’m really liking that there >> are more keystrokes in newer Pharo’s but not liking that the same >> operations don’t have the same bindings in different windows - e.g. in the >> debugger - its not this!!) >> >> Anyway - this gives me an implementors window on TEasilyThemed - great! >> >> In the source, there is another msg send - ^self alert:title:configure: >> >> So I want to follow its implementers - I hi light the source and >> cmd+b,cmd+m does nothing? hmmm - right click there and the context menu >> doesn’t have an obvious way - until I spot (Extended Search…) [which by the >> way should be shown as a submenu - like it does in the SystemBrowser). >> >> In this menu there is “implementers of it” - however this does nothing? >> (this is in both Pharo 3.0 and Pharo 4.0) >> >> So how do you trace through method calls? Am I doing something wrong - or >> has this been broken for a long time? >> > > A workspace expression and Debug It? > > Now, beware of how you select the code chunk, if you do not select > properly, it will not work. > I tried in a fresh 3.0 and highlighting in the code pane and asking for > implementors does work from the extended search menu. > > I also use spotlight often. > > Phil > > >> >> Tim >> >> >
