Search for a symbol or string in all objects
Last updated at 9:27 am UTC on 19 July 2022
Searching for a symbol value
Search for the occurence of #swapMouseButtonsChanged in instance variable of all objects in the image:
searchSymbol := #swapMouseButtonsChanged.
resultObjects := OrderedCollection new.
SystemNavigation default allObjectsDo: [:obj |
1 to: obj class instSize do: [:i | |val|
val := obj instVarAt: i.
val isSymbol ifTrue: [
val = searchSymbol ifTrue: [resultObjects add: obj]]]].
Source: Marcel Taeumel, Mar 07, 2016, Squeak Dev Mailing List
Searching for a string value
searchTerm := 'birthday'.
resultObjects := OrderedCollection new.
SystemNavigation default allObjectsDo: [:obj |
1 to: obj class instSize do: [:i | |val|
val := obj instVarAt: i.
val isString ifTrue: [
(val includesSubstring: searchTerm) ifTrue: [resultObjects add: obj]]]].
resultObjects explore
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