broccole@panix.com wrote:
One missing link is creating a compressed flash shape from the morph shape. I do not understand the Balloon engine and more generally the process by which Morphs are rendered. Can someone point me to a basic description of the rendering process to give me some direction when looking at the code. Again, I think the goal is just to get the morph shape and then convert it to a compressed flash shape.
Well, Morphs draw themselves on a Canvas. They're responsible for that (look at Morph>>drawOn:).
Most of the time, the Canvas will be a FormCanvas, which has a Form, which has a bitmap.
If you make your own FormCanvas, you can get a Morph to draw itself on that canvas, and then do what you want with the bitmap.
Or you could make a Canvas subclass that understands the various drawing messages (see PostscriptCanvas for an example of that).