Re: [Help-smalltalk] Getting a widget to display the whole transcript output

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/15/2011 12:41 PM, ZuLuuuuuu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a GTK+ widget which has a text view in it. I want to redirect all
> Transcript output to this widget. I implemented #nextPutAll: for this widget
> and did:
>
> Transcript message: myWidget ->  #nextPutAll:.
>
> But whenever an error happens, it still displays the first few words of the
> error on the console and the rest of the error on the widget. For example
> when I evaluate:
>
>   6 blabla
>
> the console displays:
>
>   Object: 6
>
> and the rest of the error is displayed on my widget's text view:
>
>
>    error: did not understand #blabla
>   MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
>   SmallInteger(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #blabla (SysExcept.st:1407)
>   optimized [] in UndefinedObject>>Doit (a String:2)
>   UndefinedObject>>Doit (a String:1)
>   [] in Behavior class(Behavior)>>evalString:to: (Behavior.st:428)
>
>
> Anyone has an idea what the problem might be? I might try to create a sample
> code if you have no idea...

Yes, the "Object: 6" part is printed using #basicPrint which hardcodes 
the output to stderr.  It's done that way to make it vaguely easier to 
understand infinite error loops, but perhaps it's time to drop this 
historical relic.

Paolo