I think the issue should be addressed at the level of the TaskbarMorph. That should be the one that gets limited, for example, by providing a "more windows" button.
We should not get limited in spawning inspectors, I think. Cheers, Doru On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:58 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21/7/14 10:29, Peter Uhnák wrote: > > Wouldn't it be easier to simply enforce fixed limit of Inspector/Debug > instances (e.g. 10 or 20)? After reaching the limit creation of more would > be simply ignored. Because as a victim I don't see much use of having > vastly more windows than even fit on the screen especially since most of > the erroneous windows are actually identical. > > > yes this is a nice idea. > If somebody is ready for the challenge, please try and we will integrate > it. > > > > Peter > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It would be nice to have the toolbar have some kind of Win7 spinner to >> the right to solve this. >> >> Is there a way to know when a system window was opened? >> >> Who hasn't been a victim of the attack of the too many windows popping up >> all over? >> >> Phil >> Le 21 juil. 2014 02:12, "Ben Coman" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> kilon alios wrote: >>> >>> I am afraid I could not do that, it seems that when pharo has opened too >>> many windows the bottom bar takes all the space of the pharo windows and >>> because it has higher viewer priority you cannot view any kind of window. >>> All you see is that bars that represent open windows filling your screen. >>> >>> >>> That is a problem. >>> >>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13618/Toolbar-should-never-fill-more-than-half-the-screen >>> >>> >>> So the solution for me was to reopen the image , fetch most of my lost >>> code from changes and fortunately only add a few lines of code back that >>> were permanently lost. >>> >>> So a big thank you for changes , it saved me at least hours of work >>> and thank you for trying to help me. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> As Peter said, you can execute any code in an inspector window. Here >>>> is how you might solve this yourself :) >>>> There is a menu option >>>> World > Windows > Delete unchanged windows. >>>> Of course, you can't use that directly since your background is covered >>>> with windows. But you could open up another image and then do this... >>>> 1. Bring up the halos on that menu option >>>> 2. Click the "Debug" spanner icon and choose 'Inspect Morph' >>>> 3. Scroll down to /target/ where you find "[ World >>>> closeUnchangedWindows ]" >>>> 4. Evaluate that back in the problem image in any Inspector. >>>> >>>> I describe this process since until a moment ago when I did that, I >>>> didn't know about the existence of "closeUnchangedWindows." >>>> cheers -ben >>>> >>>> >>>> Peter Uhnák wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe running something like this would work: >>>> ---- >>>> InspectorNavigator allInstancesDo: [ :each | each window close ]. >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> You can run arbitrary code from basically anywhere where you can >>>> enter text (and Inspector has couple of boxes where you can enter text). >>>> >>>> Also doesn't holding escape close it too? >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:33 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there a shortcut to close all inspector windows ? and if not how >>>>> I close the window of a selected inspector ? >>>>> >>>>> Basically I accidentally opened over 1000 inspector windows and i want >>>>> to close them all now because they have occupied the entire GUI and I cant >>>>> do anything other than closing them on by one. I cant open the world menu >>>>> or open a new window because they take not only the entire window but also >>>>> they are always on top. >>>>> >>>>> The tragedy is that I had plenty of code that I don't want to lose >>>>> because I have not saved, please help :( >>>>> >>>>> Can't open a workspace to issue pharo commands or any other window :( >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
