Inspector changes? Even when not connected to Gemstone??

> It seems that somewhere between the 7.0/7.1 GBS and 7.3 -- a series of
> changes has occurred re what is shown for ALL objects in a Trippy inspector
> even if not logged into Gemstone.
>
> I cannot find any reference to this in the release notes (I might have
> missed it I guess ...)
>
> Seems that gbxDebugPrintOn:  is used.
>
> Since many of our objects have quite comprehensive "printOn:" methods,
> this was a bit disturbing, and took me quite some time to track down.
>
> I figure I can implement my own "gbxDebugPrintOn:" methods, but what
> rules do I need to follow?  Right now, for the ones causing me the most
> problems
> I just did
>     ^self printOn: aStrm
>
> which presumably bypasses the purpose of doing this??
>

> Dennis Smith wrote:
>> It seems that somewhere between the 7.0/7.1 GBS and 7.3 -- a series of
>> changes has occurred re what is shown for ALL objects in a Trippy
>> inspector
>> even if not logged into Gemstone.
>>
>> I cannot find any reference to this in the release notes (I might
>> have missed it I guess ...)
>>
>> Seems that gbxDebugPrintOn:  is used.
>>
>> Since many of our objects have quite comprehensive "printOn:" methods,
>> this was a bit disturbing, and took me quite some time to track down.
>>
>> I figure I can implement my own "gbxDebugPrintOn:" methods, but what
>> rules do I need to follow?  Right now, for the ones causing me the
>> most problems
>> I just did
>>     ^self printOn: aStrm
>>
>> which presumably bypasses the purpose of doing this??
>>
>
> I expect that you've noticed that Object>>gbxDebugPrintOn: is
> implemented as:
>
>   ^self printOn: aStream
>
> We override this definition in a small number of classes, and I
> imagine it's one of these overrides you're running into.
>
> It should be OK in most cases to add the simple redefinition that
> you've done. The most important function of debug printing is size
> limiting, and that is done by the GbxLimitingStream that should always
> be the argument to #gbxDebugPrintOn:.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Martin
>

> Dennis Smith wrote:
>> one that is not good that is NOT ours is Text.
>> Try
>>     'abc' asText gbxDebugPrintOn: strm
>> its snot a good result.
>>
>
> Thanks, that's definitely undesirable, and also would affect
> GapString. I'll file a bug report and make sure it gets fixed in the
> next GBS release.
>
> A reasonable interim solution would be to override that message at the
> CharacterCollection level.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Martin
>