On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, YossiDM <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there a simple way that I can do some introspection on an image file > without loading it as the current image for the VM? Specifically, I want to > query the classes, methods, packages, etc loaded into the image for > documentation purposes, for example from a previous version of an image > saved as a snapshot. > > Is there a way I can do this with built-in functionality? It's easy on the > running image, but I don't want to actually load a new VM with an image to > check its contents. Would it be possible to use AST or anything like that > worst case? > very recently someone posted a link to a complete visualization of an image to pdf, I think on the squeak list. So yes, there are tools to do this. You can also load an image using the VMMaker and analyse it in that. Of course a really nice ay would be a mirror interface to the image so one could use standard tools to inspect it, but that's real work. HTH Eliot > > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Introspection-on-saved-image-file-tp3027736p3027736.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
