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Hi, I have a question about pulling apart returned messages from an object.
In my example (which I solved using a different method, btw, so it's already done, but I know I might need to do this later, so I'm asking for guidance now!), I needed to find the display resolution the VM detected so I could do some math on it. The math was being plugged into a method that was expecting a point ( i.e. 400 @ 300). However, the only thing I could find that would return anything about the screen resolution was a method that returned the origin and extent as 2 separate points.
My question is, what's the best way one normally 'peels off' one aspect of a message when working with objects someone else has written? Should I write an object myself that peels away that information, or should I do it internally in the method that needs that information? And specifically, to peel that information off, how would I do it?
Basically what was happening was I was doing some PRINT IT's of Display boundingBox and found the two points it returned, which is why the edit to a method I was modifying didn't work: it fed a single point to other objects and so returning the two points with their names obviously confused it. How would I get JUST one value that doesn't get returned by an object via single method but instead chooses to group related values in a previously existing object?
Would this be a place to create a dummy array maybe within the method and pull out x item from it maybe?
Thanks for any help! I think some of this is finally gelling after almost 2 years of trying to learn smalltalk through books and online tutorials...kind of excited, so thanks to the peeps who wrote the Smalltalk workshop files to a PDF...they really REALLY helped me this afternoon to finally have the 'aha!' moment everyone claimed would happen (which seemed more and more distant and fantasy like the longer I struggled).
Peace, all!
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