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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk V/286 TopPanes
Summary: Clearing the crud with "Scheduler reinitialize".
Keywords: Dependents
Message-ID: <85559@linus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 03:22:13 GMT
References: <47d02008.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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Reply-To: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort)
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In article <47d02008.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> yon@apollo.HP.COM (David Yon) writes:

 > At any rate, when I tried to remove LineEditor from the system, I got the
 > message, "has instances".  I evaluated "LineEditor allInstances" and
 > lo and behold there were around 10 instances remaining.  Curious,
 > I also evaluated "TopPane allInstances", and found that even though
 > there were only 5 windows opens on the screen, there were 23 instances
 > of TopPane in the system dictionary.  Upon closer inspection, I found
 > that these were instances of windows that I had closed long ago.

You probably have dependencies between the panes and their contents.
Evaluate "Scheduler reinitialize" to get rid of this crud.  (This
will cause *all* windows to go away, leaving you with a fresh Transcript
window.  You can then open a fresh Browser and WorkSpace.)  If you want
to keep some things around, you will have to inspect Dependents and
manually release just the ones you no longer want.

--Barry Kort