Class: MiniInspector

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • private

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--MiniInspector

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

System-Debugging-Support

Version:

rev: 1.46 date: 2021/11/27 12:40:10

user: cg

file: MiniInspector.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

a primitive (non graphical) inspector for use on systems without
graphics or when the real inspector dies (i.e. the UI is locked).
Sometimes useful as a last chance to fix a broken UI / event handling.
Needs a console.

    MiniInspector openOn: Display

Attention:
    all printing is done via lowLevel _errorPrint messages,
    to ensure that output is to stderr, even if a logger is present, 
    or Stderr has been set to some other stream (Transcript).
    Also to avoid the logger's interfering and adding imestamp information.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1989 by Claus Gittinger
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 openOn: anObject

enter a mini inspector;
not really anything is opened here - this is a line-by-line inspector;
protocol was made compoatible with graphical inspector

 openOn: anObject input: inputStreamOrNil

enter a mini inspector;
not really anything is opened here - this is a line-by-line inspector;
protocol was made compoatible with graphical inspector

 openOn: anObject input: inputStreamOrNil level: level

enter a mini inspector;
not really anything is opened here - this is a line-by-line inspector;
protocol was made compoatible with graphical inspector

Instance protocol:

 inputStream: something

 level: anInteger

 callInspect: anotherObject message: msg

 commandLoop

EOF -> quit

 enter

 getCharacter

globally blocking

 getCommand: prompt

numeric

 initializeFor: anObject

 inspect: anObject

 inspectInstvar: which of: anObject

 interpreterLoopWith: anObject

 printInstVarsOf: anObject