Thanks for all these tips and reflections. There are a number of things for me to try now.
@Hilaire: I'll try try Calypso. There are indeed several things one could experiment with in making the important connections more visible in the development tools. I have also been thinking of a more OSX/GT like browser design that just opens new panels to the right and opens inheritance view, code view, class side methods in that way too... it would be more compact and uniform and easier to put relevant pieces side-by-side. @Ben: Clever to use the profiler to see what the code does most of, I didn't think of it. Also thanks for your tips on the general workflow of understanding the code, everyone. I'm glad you have provided so much input and discussion, I was following it eagerly. thanks, Siemen
