At 3:38 PM -0500 3/27/98, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>How are people creating forms in Squeak?  I want students to be able to
>create forms for use in various ways.
>- The FormEditor doesn't seem to fileOut or fileIn anything -- at least, I
>can't seem to read the bits in after I file them out.
>- The Morphic drawing editor is great, but I can't figure out how to read
>in those objects and display them wherever I want.
>- I can do sketching of forms then do "Form fromUser", but that's a pretty
>weak editing environment.
>- I can just surrender, do the forms elsewhere and save them as GIF, then
>read them into Squeak.
>
>Is there anybody playing with Forms on a regular basis in Squeak?  How are
>you doing it?
>
>Thanks!
> Mark

We use the Morphic drawing editor to create and manipulate Forms.
To save a form use:

	f writeOnFileNamed: 'test.form'.

To read it back in:

	f := Form fromFileNamed: 'test.form'.

Easy!

	-- John