[squeak-dev] Method 'saveAsEmbeddedImage'

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Dec 27 23:24:12 UTC 2009


On 26.12.2009, at 19:51, Ang BeePeng wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I saw a method under class SmalltalkImage, named 'saveAsEmbeddedImage'. How
> is the method work, and what? And what should be its input? (I go through
> the code but do not really understand). There's no sender found, so should I
> debug 'SmalltalkImage current saveAsEmbeddedImage' to learn more about it? 
> 
> About 'snapshotEmbeddedPrimitive', primitive 247?

This is from experimental code to create single-file applications. It would save a copy of the VM and append an image. Nowadays nobody bothers with this anymore.

- Bert -





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