On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:50:59 -0500, Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries at acm.org> wrote:
> On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 4:03:12 PM, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> > I don't mean to make it too simple, but:
> 
> > t := TextMorph new
> >  backgroundColor: Color white;
> >  beAllFont: ((TextStyle named: 'BitstreamVeraSans') fontOfSize: 36);
> >  contentsAsIs: 'BitstreamVeraSans';
> >  yourself.
> > GIFReadWriter putForm: t imageForm onFileNamed: 'textGifTest.gif'.
> 
> And why not make it simple? Is there some rule that this stuff has
> to hurt? :) Thanks!

And on the off chance (since you mentioned Seaside) that you're using
this within a web app - you can just do this wherever you want it to
appear:

html imageWithForm: t imageForm

Seaside will take care of generating the GIF, assigning it a URL, and
putting that as the src of your img element.

Avi