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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:24:00 GMT
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- From: Tom Roche <STCS8015@IRUCCVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Instance Creator and Editor
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- Rick Hildebrant writes:
-
- >I have a need to manually create instances of classes and then specify the
- >corresponding instance variables, regardless of what object class they refer
- >to. It seems to me that this would be a commonly desired function and that
- >some sort of "instance editor" ought to exist. Can anyone point me in the
- >direction of such an editor? Many thanks in advance.
-
- "Portia: An Instance-Centered Environment for Smalltalk"
- by Eric Gold & Mary Beth Rosson,
- in Proceedings of OOPSLA'91, pp.62-74
-
- describes a Smalltalk environment which allows sophisticated manipulation
- of individual class instances. I don't know anything about the general
- availability of this environment, however, but the authors' address is
- given as
- User Interface Institute,
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
- P.O. Box 704,
- Yorktown Heights, New York 10598.
-
- Another possibility is to use or extend the Drawing Inspector application
- that comes with HotDraw - this gives you a graphical presentation of live
- objects, which, if I remember correctly, can be edited.
-
- Tom Roche,
- Dept. of Computer Science, University College, Cork, Ireland.
- stcs8015@iruccvax.ucc.ie
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