[Newbies] FW: Bitmap-Arrays too large for "contents"

Hi Squeak-Fans!

I am new in programming squeak an I have the following problem:

I want to integrate bitmap-arrays in my project for the images used in it. To get the elements for my bit-map array I used:

| image stream | image := ColorForm fromFileNamed: '/path/to/picture/icon.gif'. stream := WriteStream with: String new. image storeOn: stream. stream contents.

By inspecting contents I can copy & paste its elements to the corresponding methods for the image. The Problem now is, that some of my images generate more bitmap-code elements than "contents" can display. Do you have an Idea how may copy&paste all the elements of the Stream!? I tried Seaside WAFileLibrary and pasted the generated methods, but WAFileLibrary returns byte-arrays, which can't be interpretet within the squeak form of *Morph.

So does anybody of you have an Idea and may help me?

Thanks, Regards.

Your last line could become

Clipboard clipboardText: stream contents

However, the canonical way would be to simply generate the method rather than doing it manually. Generating a method can be as simple as

MyClass compile: 'myMethod ^42'

See, for example, MenuIcons>>importIconNamed:.

• Bert -

Hi Bert & Squeak Community, thanks for your cool tip. I'll try to generate the methods via "class compile". I've tested it and a new problem came up. I did it the same way MenuIcons>>importIconNamed is implemented. The problem now is, that there comes up a error message ("MessageNotUnterstood(Metaclass)>>category") although I've inserted classfied : 'generated methods' and the category is already created and exists.

Here the code snippet:

generateMethodsForJPG: aString | writer image stream | writer := JPEGReadWriter on: (FileStream fileNamed: aString, '.jpg'). [ image := writer nextImage] ensure: [writer close]. stream := ReadWriteStream on: (String new). stream nextPutAll: aString ; cr. stream nextPutAll: (self methodStart: aString). image storeOn: stream. stream nextPutAll: self methodEnd. MyGraphicLibrary class compile: stream contents classified: 'generated methods' notifying: nil. ^ stream contents

MyGraphicLibrary is a subclass of Object. The error comes up at "compile:[...]". Everything before that works fine. Form is created etc. Simply the compilation does not work.

Do you have an Idea what the problem could be here ?

Thanks for your help!

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