Hi,

I remember (back from my Squeak days) there was MathMorphs project:

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It supported a nice feature called "Morphic Wrappers"

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One could just hit a special key combination to get into "typing mode" without a
workspace. Then one could enter a Smalltalk expression like "EclipseMorph new" and
the result was displayed on the desk (as a morph). Even non-morphic expressions
were possible like returning a point: "1@2" and the displayed as visual morph.

It was also able to combine the resulting objects, for instance if you enter
"1" a morph with "1" was displayed on the desktop. When you then enter "2" you
get a morph with "2" on the desk. Now dragging "2" onto "1" displayed a spinning
"satellite" and by clicking on it the various possible options for message sends
with one arguments where shown like #+ or #@, ...

So essentially you dragged one object (like "2") onto the other one (like "1") and
the systems showed you how you could combine them with a message. The resulting
object (like the point "1@2" when selecting #@ message or "3" when you select #+)
was then again displayed visually on the desktop.

This was really nice to lively explain objects and messages to newbees and I wished
a port of such a feature would exist for Pharo.

I also wonder if it would make sense for Spotter to accept regular
Smalltalk expressions. Currently it does not.

I mean just open Spotter, enter "Transcript show: 'HelloWorld'" or any other
without having to open a workspace...

Any comments?

Thanks
T.