[Newbies] Re: How to add a gif or an image to a Morph
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Mar 18 13:54:39 UTC 2010
On 18.03.2010, at 14:30, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 04:56:13 pm FrankBz wrote:
>> The problem is that I'm writing a a morph that should change background
>> image accordingly to user action..
> What exactly are you trying to do? Create a button? Create a scenic animated
> background? Do you need to scale/rotate your background image before display?
>
> See ThreePhaseButtonMorph for a morph which changes its background depending
> on mouse gestures.
Right. Also see the class side of ThreePhaseButtonMorph to see how it gets its images, e.g. in #checkBox.
You can use the same mechanism. Once you imported the image, store the form in the ScriptingSystem's formDictionary. Just open an inspector on the image morph and call
ScriptingSystem saveForm: aForm atKey: 'myImageName'.
Later you can retrieve that form by
ScriptingSystem formAtKey: 'myImageName'.
It would be more usual to implement this "resources dictionary" in your own class. That is, just have a class variable with a dictionary to hold the forms. Or, if there are very few forms, simply have a class variable for each (like class Cursor does).
- Bert -
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