Hi,

I see that there is a bit of an interest in the GTInspector, so here are some 
extra info about it. Beyond the things you can do out-of-the-box with it, the 
true power of the inspector comes from its extensibility. The idea is to offer 
each object an easy way to exhibit its own characteristics. This changes the 
way you can think of interacting with objects. Some more details here:
http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/equal-browsing-opportunity-for-every-object

A new feature is the ability to edit code directly in the methods presentation. 
Combined with the possibility of executing a method in place and previewing the 
result, this opens the door for a prototype-like programming style.

The GTInspector is part of the Glamorous Toolkit. It is still in its infancy, 
but I think it shows that there is a great deal of possibilities to improve the 
IDE and to depart from the what we might think is a given. I am still looking 
for people interested in joining this effort (remember the idea of the ide 
taskforce). It would be great to get more people interested in improving this 
part of Pharo.

Cheers,
Doru



p.s. You can get the Glamorous Inspector in the following ways:

- download the Moose image:
http://www.moosetechnology.org/download/4.7

- download Pharo 1.4 (summer) with the Glamorous Inspector:
http://ci.moosetechnology.org/job/glamorous-toolkit-latest-dev/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/glamoroust/*zip*/glamoroust.zip

- load it in Pharo 1.4:
Gofer new 
        squeaksource: 'glamoroust';
        package: 'ConfigurationOfGlamoroust';
        load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfGlamoroust) project version: #development) 
load: 'GT-Inspector'


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