On 10 February 2013 16:25, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com> wrote:
Why does SystemNavigation >> #allSelect: return strings of the form 'Array at:' instead of the real methods?
Probably because the things that use SystemNavigation - Browsers, MessageSets and the like - want to render lists of things to the user. There is one advantage to dumb strings, which is that it's easy to make a SystemNavigation that works against a remote image. But that's not much to go on. Changing these kinds of methods to return MethodReferences might be a useful middle ground (and permit easy extension to remote tools). I mention remote tools because I hacked up a proof of concept a while back that turned a Browser into one that could access a suitably prepared image through an HTTP API. Development stalled because the reflection machinery's API is a bit... involved, and it was dog slow, but I could browse anything I liked. I should really wrap up the work a bit so I can spread the love. frank