I am working on making squeak Digital Video Special Effects demos for
SqueakEnd.  I am trying to get a nice way to have OrderedCollection type
access to lots of large forms.  I can't keep them in memory because they
are far too big.

My solution so far has been to make a sort of wrapper class that reads in
an mpeg or a zip file of BMPs and saves the frames as BMPs to a directory.
Then the user can use the wrapper to access and change those files.

my main problems are:
- kludginess:  does squeak have something that automatically handles
bringing big things in and out of memory?  someone mentioned using an
OrderedCollection of ImageSegments of Forms...would this work?  where can
I find info about how to use ImageSegments?

- speed: my current use of BMPs is pretty good fast for reading, but
writing takes a much longer...Is there a way to save and reload forms in a
different, faster format?  I saw writeOn: and storeOn: but was unable to
get them to work correctly/ figure out how to read them back in.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!
	Lushi

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