10.6. Every Menu Item in the Programming Environment

This table only covers the middle-button menus, the right-button (morph) menu is described elsewhere. It merges items from several menus: the background menu, the outliner whole-object menu, the outliner category menu, the outliner slot menu, the text editor menu, the debugger stack menu, the iterator object menus, and the changed module morph menu.

Table 10.1 Menu Items

Label	Function
Add Category	Adds a category to an object or category.
Add Slot	Adds a slot to an object or category.
Added or Changed Slots	On a module morph, enumerates slots added/changed since last save.
All Modules	Summons a hierarchical list of all modules from the changed modules morph.
All Slots	On a module morph, enumerates its slots.
Changed Modules	Summons a list of changed modules.
Children	Enumerate an object’s children.
Clean Up	Clean up the screen: collapse outliners and stack them on the left of the window.
Clean Up Memory	Manually initiate a garbage collection. Can help when you know you have just freed up a bunch of space. Self also does this automatically.
Collapse All	Collapses all outliners, or all categories within an outliner or category.
Copy Down Children	Enumerate an object’s copy-down children.
Copy Down Parent	Show an object’s copy-down parent.
Copy	Copies slots, categories or text.
Core Sampler	Summons an object for manipulating morphs.
Create Button	For a slot, create a button to send the message to the object. The receiver may be set by carrying the button on top of the receiver and using the middle-button on the button. (The button is grabbed with either the car-pet-morph or with the grab right-menu item. Bug: buttons do not mani-fest their results.)
Cut	Copies text to the text buffer.
Do Selection	Evaluate the selected text, do not show the result.
Do it	Evaluate the text in the editor, do not show the result.
Edit	On a slot, open an editor to change its name, slot type, or contents.
Evaluator	Adds an evaluator window to an object outliner.
Expand All	Expand all subcategories.
Expatriate Slots	On the changed module morph; shows a list of slots not included in any module.
(Don’t) Filter Frames	On a debugger stack, enable (or disable) filtering.
Find Slot	Searches an object and its ancestors for slot names matching a pattern.
Find Slot of :	For an assignable slot x, show all slots named x: in the object and its ancestors.
Flush	Discards cached state, e.g. the result of an enumeration.
Forget I was changed	On a module morph, removes it from the list of changed modules and clears out its record of added, changed & removed slots.
Get Module Object	On a module morph summons the object outliner for the module. Useful for editing its postFileIn method, or its revision.
Get Selection	Evaluate the selected text & show the result.
Get it	Evaluate the text in the editor, show the result.
Hide Annotation	Hides the object or slot annotation.
Hide Comment	Hides the object or slot comment.
Implementors	Searches for slots of a given name.
Implementors of :	For an assignable slot x, show all implementors of x:.
Load Morph From File	Reads in a file created with the right-menu item “Save Morph to File”
Make Creator	On a slot, set the creator annotation of its contents to be the slot.
Make Private	Change the style of the slot to show that it is intended to be private (not enforced).
Make Public	Change the style of the slot to show that it is intended to be public (not enforced). Adds a comment for posterity.
Make Undeclared	Change the style of the slot to show that no clear intention exists as to its visibility. (A Self exclusive!)
Methods Containing	Searches for all methods containing a string.
Move	Moves slots or categories.
New Shell	Summon a new shell object.
Open Factory Win-dow	Open a new window containing handy morphs (such as a radar-view) you can tear-off and drag to other Self windows.
Palette	Summons an object for obtaining morphs for building.
Paste	Pastes text from the buffer.
Quit	Leave job and ride boxcars.
Radar View	Summons an object for moving the current viewport around in space.
Read Module	On a module morph, rereads the source file.
References	Enumerate references to an object.
Removed Slots	On a module morph, lists removed slot paths.
Restore Window State	Restores the saved state of the screen.
Save snapshot	Saves an image of all objects in a snapshot file. Overwrites the snapshot file that was opened originally. Saves the previous version with a “.old” suffix.
Save snapshot as …	Lets you set the file name and other parameters of the saved snapshot. For example, if you have a lot of memory, you can increase the code cache size.
Save Window State	Saves the state of the screen.
Send	For a method in a concrete object, send the message to the object.
Senders	Searches for methods sending a given message.
Senders of :	For an assignable slot x, show all senders of x:, i.e. methods that might assign to x.
Senders in family	Searches for methods sending a given message in the selected object, its ancestors, and it descendants.
Senders of : in family	For an assignable slot x, show all senders of x:, i.e. methods that might assign to x in the selected object, its ancestors, and it descendants.
Set Module	Sets the module of a slot or group of slots.
Shell	Summons an outliner on the shell. Used for evaluating expressions.
Show All Frame	On a debugger stack, disable filtering.
Show Annotation	Shows the object or slot annotation.
Show Comment	Shows the object or slot comment.
Show Morph	For morph object outliners, summons the morph that the object imple-ments.
“Subclass” Me	Appears on the object menu. Automates several steps equivalent to sub-classing in Smalltalk: Creates a copy-down child of the selected object and makes a new parent object for the new child that inherits from the selected object’s parents. It also sets some of the annotations for transport.
The box at the top.	Pins up the menu.
Toggle Spy	Toggles an X Window spying on the Virtual Machine. A nice source of reassurance.
Traits Family	Show an inheritance hierarchy textually. Only works on certain objects on alternate Thursdays.
Write Snapshot	Saves all the objects in the Self world to a (fairly large) file.