Also, it would be great to have it accessible from the World/Tools menu. Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote: > > A new tool to browse and dive deep into the flow of messages > using a tree representation (messages, senders, implementors, ...) > and further on. I know such a tool from Smalltalk/MT and it is really > helpful to trace a message flow without running in the debugger. > > See the attached screenshot, the best is to try it: > > In a latest Pharo 5.0 image (Pharo5.0 Latest update: #50314) > you can evaluate: > > Gofer new > url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/TorstenBergmann/MessageFlowBrowser/main'; > package: 'Tool-MessageFlowBrowser'; > load > > to load it. > > Then open whatever method in Nautilus and choose "Message Flow" from the > context > menu. The nice thing is that you can dive into senders, implementors, > messages sent > deeper and deeper (or up again) and you do not open more and more windows but > stay > in a single window !!! > > Alternatively you can start the tool from the playground: > > MessageFlowBrowser openOn: #inspect "open the flow browser on a selector" > > MessageFlowBrowser openOn: (Compiler>>#evaluate) "open the flow browser on a > method" > > MessageFlowBrowser openOn: Object "open the flow browser on a class" > > 1 messageFlow. "open the flow browser on the class of an > instance" > > > If someone with GT knowledge and time could help to correct the syntax > highlighting > in the code pane this would be super cool (see method MessageFlowBrowser > #openOn:). > Also selection could be improved to show/highlight the messages sent directly > in the code. Unfortunately I'm not so familar with the current code editors - > so > any help is appreciated. > > Repo is open for contribution. > > Thanks > T. > > <messageflow.png>
