Visualization Tools User's Guide


Opening Other Tools from the Snooper

Other tools of the development environment can be opened on objects displayed by the Snooper.

Browse, Composition Edit.

You may open browsers or composition editors on objects from a Snooper.

  1. Evaluate Transcript snoop in a workspace window to open a Snooper on the transcript, as in ***.
  2. Select fileMenu.
  3. From the Actions menu, select Browse. (Or, use the popup menu, or type control+b).

    An ordinary code browser opens up.

  4. From the Actions menu, select Composition Edit.

    A composition editor on the CwMenu class appears.

Snoop

You may open new Snoopers on objects in a Snooper.

  1. Select fileMenu.
  2. From the Actions menu, select Snoop. (Or, use the popup menu, or type control+s).

    Another Snooper appears, inspecting the value of the file menu.

Inspect and Basic Inspect

You may invoke inspectors from the Snooper. This may be preferable in some cases, e.g., very large collections which you do not want to display in full.

  1. Select fileMenu
  2. From the Actions menu select Inspect.

    An ordinary inspector on the file menu appears.

Snoop All References

You may snoop the collection of all references to a given object.

  1. In a workspace, type 78 snoop.
  2. Select the self line.
  3. From the Actions menu select Snoop All References.
  4. A new Snooper opens, showing all the objects in your image that refer to the number 78.


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