I m familiar with the VisualWorks and Dolphin versions of Smalltalk, but have not previously used Squeak. I m just familiarising myself with Pharo, which is a cleaned up fork of Squeak.
I m used to having the facility in the Class Browser to show either only the methods implemented by a class or both the methods inherited and the methods implemented.
Is this useful facility missing in Squeak, or have I just been unable to find it?
You can double-click on any class to open a Hierarchy Browser on that particular class. The hierarchy button in the toolbar and the menu entry browse hierarchy (Ctrl+H) open the same view.
There is the Inheritance Browser that shows you the hierarchal implementations of the currently selected method. Click on the inheritance button in the toolbar.
Furthermore there is the Protocol Browser that displays all methods and super methods of a class together. To open this browser select browse protocol (Ctrl+Shift+P) in the context menu of the class.
If you want to build a browser with that behaviour, you should take a look at the Glamour browser construction DSL.
I personally do not feel the need to see all 34 pages of method names defined in ProtoObject and Object, or the 5 pages of method categories. Object methods size prints 421.
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