Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> When I'm half-way through writing a method in a browser, how can I
> quickly get a list of instance variables in the current class?
The quickest way I could find to get a list of instance variables was:
Class | Instance Variables | References... (Ctrl+F5)
Admittedly I've never used that for this purpose. At first I thought of
clicking the instance variables tab at the top right, but that wants to
accept the changed method first. Similarly for clicking the Comment or
Definition tabs. What I've generally done is press Ctrl+Shift+B to open
a new main browser tab - that's a feature of RBTabbedToolsets, which you
can load with System | Load Parcels Named....
IMHO RBTabbedToolsets has the expected behavior of multiple tabs in an
IDE: you can leave unsaved changes in a tab while you switch to other
tabs. The other tabs in the browser don't behave like this, but I guess
we're so used to them we don't notice that it's now surprising behavior.
> Bonus question for extra points: in other Smalltalks, it is often
> possible to highlight text and then, with a keystroke, get
> implementers of that text as a method name, senders of that text as
> a method name, or open a browser on that text as a class name. Is
> there a way to do this in VW?
With the method name selected, open the pop-up menu and you'll see:
- Browse Senders of Selector (Ctrl+F11)
- Browse Implementors of Selector (Ctrl+F12)
The menu is context-sensitive, so if you have a class name or instance
variable name selected it will contain appropriate actions for that
instead. There's also always Explain (Ctrl+E), which will open a dialog
listing where the selected element is defined, with a Browse button to
open the definition/implementers in a new browser.
All the best,
Steve
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