You miss the difference between a class and its instances

Ben

On May 14, 2013, at 8:10 PM, Alain Busser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Exploring the system browser (Pharo 2.0), I see that there exists a class 
> called TextEditorDialogWindow; as this name sounds interesting to me, I want 
> to test one, and I see that there is only one method in the category 
> 'create': this method is called newTextEditorMorph. So, I send the message 
> newTextEditorMorph to the class TextEditorDialogWindow, daring a:
> 
> TextEditorDialogWindow newTextEditorMorph
> 
> At the 'Do It', I get this error message: 'TextEditorDialogWindow 
> class(Object)    doesNotUnderstand: #newTextEditorMorph'
> 
> That's what I don't understand: If the class has a method called this way, 
> why does it not understand the corresponding message? What did I miss?
> 
> Alain

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