Hi Milan,

I used this solution in EasyMorphicGUI to store GUI prototype as a  
bytearray in a class method named serializedPrototype. Serialization  
and deserialization are done using  class methods
EMGGuiMorph class>>savePrototype
EMGGuiMorph class>>restorePrototype

Code is available at
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/EasyMorphicGUI

Cheers,
Noury
Le 13 févr. 07 à 07:35, Milan Zimmermann a écrit :

> On 2007 February 12 08:06, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> A workaround would be to put that string into a method, and
>> unserialize the project into the class var in the class-side
>> #initialize.
>
> Yes, this is basically what I am trying to do now. Basically (sort  
> of ) a copy
> and paste from the live string into a method and adding ^'' around  
> (through a
> ByteArray and a few hoops, as I cannot just copy and paste).
>
> Speaking of copy/paste: When I do Alt-p on something like:
>
> (ProjectsToTestContainer getContainedProjectHolders at: 1) getProject
>
> It shows something like:
>
> a ByteArray(80 75 3 4 20....etc...)
>
> when the result is very long, it shows "...etc" at the end. Same if  
> I print to
> Transcript. Is there some way to force showing all the contents?
>
>>
>> A totally hackish thing would be to include the project file in the
>> MCZ, which is just a ZIP archive after all, and when #initialize is
>> called on your class, walk up the call chain to find the Monticello
>> instance that initiated the load - peek into its innards to get at
>> the file ;-)
>
> Maybe not as hackish ;) I think this would allow a less "manual"  
> process when
> adding another project to test.
>
> Thanks Milan
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2007, at 13:50 , Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>>> Mathew,
>>>
>>> do you mean class-side initilization that would run when the MCZ is
>>> loaded in
>>> the image on the "target" system? If so, that is not what I am
>>> looking for -
>>> I am explicitly trying to initialize that member only on the first
>>> system
>>> that creates the MCZ. In more detail, when creating resource for
>>> the test, I
>>> stream eToys .pr file into a String, and the tests then stream
>>> Projects from
>>> this string as if they were loading the .pr file. The reason I need
>>> that, is
>>> I cannot (and do not want to) ship these .pr files around with the
>>> tests.
>>>
>>> Milan
>>>
>>> On 2007 February 12 00:27, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to do something like this: I have a class
>>>>> LoadProjectTest
>>>>> that is essentially a singleton and the LoadProjectTest  class  
>>>>> is in
>>>>> category eToys-Tests. I'd like to do something like this: In the
>>>>> image
>>>>> where this class originates, I am creating the instance, and
>>>>> setting one
>>>>> instance variable with some value from a local file. I'd like the
>>>>> instance to be stored in Monticello, when I "save" the category.
>>>>> Then,
>>>>> when the MCZ is loaded into another image, the instance would be
>>>>> there,
>>>>> filled with the value as created in the originating image.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, when I load the MCZ into another image, the instance is
>>>>> null;
>>>>> although I was assuming otherwise, that makes sense as the
>>>>> Monticello
>>>>> repository stores code not live objects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to, somehow, to make Monticello to keep the
>>>>> instance, so
>>>>> it is deserialized from the MCZ when the MCZ is loaded into the
>>>>> target
>>>>> image?
>>>>
>>>> You would write some class initialization code that creates this
>>>> instance, and stores it where you see fit. Put your code in the
>>>> class-side initialize method.
>>>>
>>>> A good example of a code that does just that is the class
>>>> ExternalType in category FFI-Kernel. Look at the methods in
>>>> category "class initialization"
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Milan
>>>>
>>>> Hope it helps.
>

Noury
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