On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Davide Varvello <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello there, > I'm puzzled about those 2 items in inspector's menu and I've a couple of > questions: > 1) What's the difference between them? It seems to me the meaning is quite > similar. > 2) Every time I click on "Objects pointing to this value" nothing happens, > is it right? I'm on Pharo 1.4 > Hi. I can confirm 2). It has always happened that to me. It has never worked properly. And indeed, it looks the same as 1). I have no idea which should be the differences. > 3) Is there any documentation or example that explains how to use them? If > not can it be added on Pharo book? > > Sure. If you need an account in the book let me know. There is actually now magic. You just explore your object and then click on "explore pointers" and that opens a explorer with the objects poiting to that one. I explained a bit in: http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/pharo-tips-and-tricks/ under title "*Why GC is not collecting a particular object?*" Cheers > Cheers > Davide > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Objects-pointing-to-this-value-and-Explore-pointers-tp4636494.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
