Chandler UI Architecture

While working on the the Markup Bar, I ran into the following code in Detail.py

self.dynamicParent.widget.ToggleTool(self.toolID, shouldToggleBasedOnKind)

There is a lot of knowledge wrapped up in this line. I was doing pretty well until I hit it. Now I needed to find out where in DetailStampButton's class hierarchy the attribute dynamicParent was defined. This is not a trivial task. Ideally there would be a class hierarchy list or diagram somewhere and an easy way to find out what class defined what attributes. Being on a Mac using TextMate^?, I felt a bit SOL. Perhaps I could try using an IDE like WingIDE^?. But I've heard that that's dead slow and not really usable on a Mac.

Most of the time I revert to using Unix commands to find things. e.g. find . -iname '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -i foo

This can be slow and starts a large learning curve. I already feel like I'm "behind" in my learning of how Chandler hangs together. I started to do the deep learning curve thing and started writing up WhereIsEverything. Today I'm going to spend some time with JohnAnderson and hopefully learn a lot more. I will add what I learn to WhereIsEverything as well as taking notes here.