>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Cunnington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Pretty cool. Pretty cool. I see that the the Seaside-Platform class Chris> category is for relating Seaside to the underlying Smalltalk OS, which Chris> in this case is Squeak. FillInTheBlankMorph, when called openInWorld, Chris> is a whole lot of nothing. Just a blank pallet. I guess something is Chris> adding the text field and the buttons. Try print-it on: FillInTheBlank request: 'Do you like Smalltalk?' initialAnswer: 'yes!' Chris> You see, I thought that storing data in the image meant that the image Chris> would WRITE IT OUT in a class method somewhere. I thought it would Chris> produce a string that I could find with Command+Shift+E. Frankly, I Chris> think I'm only starting to grok what an instance, object, and class Chris> are. Oh, and I used to think morphs were stupid and waste of my time. Chris> Oops. The image contains all of object memory (plus a few headers). Object memory contains all the objects. Only *some* of those objects are Classes and Metaclasses, with their associated MethodDictionaries, and that's where you'd see the related source code. Other objects are *instances* of Classes (what you get from "new" and other constructors), and they're just "floating about" in object memory, although they are saved and restored in the image. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
