Charles Hixson wrote:

> Please, any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
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> I thought that as my first "major" Squeak project, I'd translate a 
> game that I had written in Ruby...but the concept seems wrong.
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> In the original game a tile (gtk: label) with a series of letters 
> would display at the top of the screen, and below it there would be 
> four pictures (xpm, gif, whatever was convenient) on "buttons".  
> Clicking the button that matched the tile would advance to a new 
> scenario with a different label and different pictures.   (In this 
> particular game it was music note names and images of the note on 
> either a bass or a treble staff.)
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> In the original, the images were left on the disk, and only read in as 
> needed (to conserve memory).
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Hi,
how about
SketchMorph fromFile:'note.gif'
Karl

> In Squeak...well, in the first place I can't figure out how to read a 
> note and place it on a button (which is only then "opened in the 
> world").  Squeak appears to want the images to be read in ahead of 
> time, one by one, and placed by hand, but I suspect that this is my 
> inexperience.  Also, when the image is read in, it seems to be 
> assigned an arbitrary ID (reasonable), but what I would want to do is 
> to store them in an ordered collection, and access them by ???? name? 
> index? octave?
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> If I could read in an image and place it into a button, then I could 
> do a straight translation.  But would this be the proper approach?  I 
> thought I might find the proper approach by studying the code for the 
> FreeCell game, as in many ways it appears to be a similar problem, but 
> the approach they take appears to be drawing the images on the fly, 
> and the thought of trying to program the drawing of bass and treble 
> signs fills me with such trepidation that I feel this MUST be the 
> wrong approach.
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