Eric Scharff wrote:
> 
> I have a bunch of tiny pictures that I use as icons in a UI.  Originally I
> made the UI in Morphic using direct manipulation (filing in the GIF icons
> by hand) but have encapsulated that stuff into code.
> 
> What is the best way to get the whole thing into a change set?  I would
> guess the best thing would be to create class methods to generate the
> Forms, either from the original GIF data or some other form.
> 
> Is there an easy (or generally accepted) way to do this?
> 
I've used the storeString of my forms in such situations. For icons
with a small extent and small number of colors that works pretty well.
If your icons are somewhat larger and more colorful, store a stringified
version of their GIF data in a method instead, and unpack that into a
class variable which serves as a cache for the thing.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin

Here is an example using a well-known icon...

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