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Luc Fabresse

Trouble while defining a customized tab in GT inspector

Hi all,

I try to play with the GT inspector (thx Andrei and Doru for the great hands on session @ ESUG'14!).

In short, I try to add a customized tab for Persons objects using a PersonUI facade and a subclass of GTObjectVariablesBrowser (ok I can explain why if needed ;-)). Like that:

Person>>gtInspectorCustomUIIn: composite

<gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 5>

^ (composite custom: (MyGTCustomObjectVariablesBrowser new startOn: (PersonUI on: self) )) " <----- HERE"

title: 'Customized view';

yourself

But, the #variableValuePairsFor: message is not sent to the PersonUI object but to the Person object even if I passed a PersonUI one to the #startOn: method (cf. HERE).

startOn: seems to not store properly the object to use afterwards or I missed a something. Did I?

please find a code sample attached if needed.

Try:

Person new inspect

Thx for any hint,

Cheers,

#Luc

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Tudor Girba-2

Re: Trouble while defining a customized tab in GT inspector

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

Indeed the ObjectVariablesBrowser does not work with another object then the one of the tab. If you want to define a custom tab, you should simply create a table with the desired variables. For example, take a look at Morph>>gtInspectorMorphExtensionIn:. This one exposes the extensions dictionary as a separate tab. It probably matches what you want.

Let me know if you still have troubles.

Cheers,

Doru

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Luc Fabresse <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

I try to play with the GT inspector (thx Andrei and Doru for the great hands on session @ ESUG'14!).

In short, I try to add a customized tab for Persons objects using a PersonUI facade and a subclass of GTObjectVariablesBrowser (ok I can explain why if needed ;-)). Like that:

Person>>gtInspectorCustomUIIn: composite
<gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 5>
^ (composite custom: (MyGTCustomObjectVariablesBrowser new startOn: (PersonUI on: self) )) " <----- HERE"
title: 'Customized view';
yourself

But, the #variableValuePairsFor: message is not sent to the PersonUI object but to the Person object even if I passed a PersonUI one to the #startOn: method (cf. HERE).
startOn: seems to not store properly the object to use afterwards or I missed a something. Did I?

please find a code sample attached if needed.
Try:
Person new inspect

Thx for any hint,
Cheers,

#Luc

www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"

Luc Fabresse

Re: Trouble while defining a customized tab in GT inspector

Hi Doru,

Thanks for your answer.

It worked as you suggested, but I had to copy three methods of ObjectVariablesBrowser (evaluatorIn:, printStringOf: and stringWithoutInitialCommentFrom:) to reproduce the evaluator part of the tab.

I am not really happy with that but perhaps there is no other way.

I still think that the startOn: method of ObjectVariablesBrowser should not loose the object passed in. Any explanation why an ObjectVariablesBrowser cannot be "pluggable"?

Cheers,

Luc

2014-11-01 21:15 GMT+01:00 Tudor Girba <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

Indeed the ObjectVariablesBrowser does not work with another object then the one of the tab. If you want to define a custom tab, you should simply create a table with the desired variables. For example, take a look at Morph>>gtInspectorMorphExtensionIn:. This one exposes the extensions dictionary as a separate tab. It probably matches what you want.

Let me know if you still have troubles.

Cheers,
Doru

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Luc Fabresse <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi all,

I try to play with the GT inspector (thx Andrei and Doru for the great hands on session @ ESUG'14!).

In short, I try to add a customized tab for Persons objects using a PersonUI facade and a subclass of GTObjectVariablesBrowser (ok I can explain why if needed ;-)). Like that:

Person>>gtInspectorCustomUIIn: composite
<gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 5>
^ (composite custom: (MyGTCustomObjectVariablesBrowser new startOn: (PersonUI on: self) )) " <----- HERE"
title: 'Customized view';
yourself

But, the #variableValuePairsFor: message is not sent to the PersonUI object but to the Person object even if I passed a PersonUI one to the #startOn: method (cf. HERE).
startOn: seems to not store properly the object to use afterwards or I missed a something. Did I?

please find a code sample attached if needed.
Try:
Person new inspect

Thx for any hint,
Cheers,

#Luc

--
www.tudorgirba.com

"Every thing has its own flow"