Hi Tim and Nicole, Thanks for great tips. The click+keyModifier actions are extremely useful, and combined with breakpoints make for a great way of 'peeking under the hood' of the existing features.
Also, I've just found a perfect piece of real code to do some learning and experimenting on - it will be the code completion itself! ;-) Andrzej On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Nicole de Graaf <n...@soops.nl> wrote: > Hi Andrzej, > > my way of doing it: > > Searching in the image what other guys are doing. > > Finder: asMorph > > and here you can find methods like > > #openAsMorph .. you can get a clue. > > or: > > ‘some text’ asMorph inspect .. > than you get the object and you can search the class and from here the > class the references. > > *All my steps are based on code reading not code completion.* > > Code completion I use more if I know what is should be and use the same > method names as the other developers. > > Nic > > > On 25 May 2018, at 03:12, andreo <andrzej.ols...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Pharoers, > > I'm just starting out with Pharo 6.1, and I'm trying to use code completion > to interactively explore various objects and their messages. However, I'm > having difficulties doing this efficiently - I think I must be missing > something obvious, and I hope you can point me in the right direction. > > For instance, let's say I have the below in Playground: > > 'some text' asMorph > > and I would like to display the morph object as a window, but I don't know > the exact message name, or whether such a message exists at all. If I type > "Window", then the completion popup will show a long list of matching > messages, but won't show their documentation or argument names, so it will > be difficult to know exactly what these messages do. > I can see that one can do "Do it and go" on an expression and then browse > the available messages in Meta, but maybe there is simpler/faster way? > > How would an experienced Pharo user typically go about discovering the > right > messages in such situations? > > Best regards, > Andrzej > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > > >
