Re: What's all the blue stuff in the workspace?

Thank you!

It is very interesting and  cutting edge. 



I also enabled code completion and some other do-dads in this image and am learning to use them.

The Morphic has really come a long, long way and I appreciate the work you folks put into it.




cordially



t






From: Thiede, Christoph via Squeak-dev <[email protected]>
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Cc: "gettimothy"<[email protected]>, "Thiede,  Christoph"<[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:09:57 -0400
Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: What's all the blue stuff in the workspace?



Hi Timothy,



It's called "interactive print-its" and can also be disabled in the preferences if you don't like it. :-)



We introduced this feature because we noticed that people sometimes would do a print-it and afterward want to take a closer look at the result in an inspector or explorer. Without interactive print-its, you would have to reselect the expression and perform
 another inspect-it, which evaluates the same code again, and in some cases, the former result might not even be reproducible (imagine the expression being something like aDictionary removeKe: #plonk). With interactive print-its, you can simply click on the
 result afterwards without re-evaluating it. Also works in the evaluator panes of inspectors, debuggers, and so on. :-)



The downside, though, is that selecting text in editors with print-its might feel a little bit less intuitive. Also, editors now can contain dangling object references that might be harder to spot.



Hope that helps & you like it! Further feedback is always welcome. :-)



Best, 

Christoph










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Hi folks

 

 thanks for all your work..not a complaint, just old dog new trick syndrome...

 

 I am on ...

 

 

/home/wm/usr/src/smalltalk/Squeak7/shared/DOC.image

Squeak6.1beta

latest update: #23787

Current Change Set: Doc

Image format 68533 (64 bit)

Preferred bytecode set: SistaV1


and in a workspace I do a print-it...

 

 

PEGMarkdownActor methodDict values

    select: [:m | m pragmas notEmpty] {(PEGMarkdownActor>>#ATXHeading:text: "a CompiledMethod(2662642)") . (PEGMarkdownActor>>#MD: "a CompiledMethod(2394200)") . (PEGMarkdownActor>>#HeadingSection:body:subsections: "a CompiledMethod(3367430)") . (PEGMarkdownActor>>#Paragraph:
 "a CompiledMethod(618544)")}





and the results are in blue...the "blue stuff" in the email title..
 
 If the workspace is active, and I hover over the "blue stuff", it becomes underlined (in blue, of course) . I click it, an Array inspector appears....
 
 its kind of cool, un-expected, but cool.
 
 What is the idea here? What should I expect?
 
 Thank you for your time and hard work..the UI has become very fast 
 
 cordially


t





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