We have a winner!
Thank you, Colin:)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:

>
> On 26-Aug-09, at 10:22 PM, Ronald Spengler wrote:
>
>  I have a Form (for use as a button) that I would like to serialize in a
>> way that allows me to keep it as text in a method. I would like to do this
>> the simplest way possible, optimizing for speed (not space.) Ideally it
>> would look as much like this as possible:
>>
>> Foo>>someIcon
>>    ^ #( ... ) asForm
>>
>> What's the best way to do this?
>>
>
> Create your form, then send #storeString to it. It will answer a Smalltalk
> expression that recreates the form. Then just answer that expression from
> your #someIcon method. OmniBrowser has a few examples of this in the class
> OBMorphicIcons.
>
> Colin
>
>


-- 
Ron
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