Re: [Pharo-users] How do I trace through implementors in Pharo?

[Ben Coman]

Dale Henrichs wrote: Tim, If there is a colon in one of the arguments (like in a Symbol) then the selector parser gets confused ... Dale I never noticed before, but I've confirmed that behaviour and logged a case. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?13826 Open a System Browser on      TEasilyThemed>>alert: aStringOrText title: aString     ^self         alert: aStringOrText         title: aString         configure: [:d | ] Select the whole of the last three lines and fromt he selection context menu choose 'Extended search... > Implementors'. Nothing happens. Now make the action but exclude the block from the selection.   Up comes a list of three implementors. This is non-obvious and confusing behaviour for new users. Blocks should be excluded from the search. cheers -ben 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