[squeak-dev] Form asSomethingOrOther

Ronald Spengler ron.spengler at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 06:30:09 UTC 2009


Holy cow! This method is on Object. I can do this with anything that
inherits from Object?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Ronald Spengler <ron.spengler at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
Ron
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