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 7: 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. |