On 27.04.2010, at 00:12, Hannes Hirzel wrote

> As we now find out is that FileList has not good code in it.

You are misunderstanding what Hans-Martin meant. This is not about the code in FileList.

Squeak's "Text" class does support embedded graphics. This is way more powerful and elegant than cooking up a FileList replacement, or extending FileList with a special bitmap preview facility. All one would have to do is instead of showing a bitmap file's contents as text characters, have it show a text containing the form itself (plus possibly some more detailed text).

The problem is that that support seems to suffer from bit rot. I bet there are people on this list who wouldn't even know it exists. Former Squeak releases made use of this even in the Welcome text window (I remember a multi-colored 'S' in 'Squeak') - maybe we should resurrect that :)

In any case I agree with HMM that this would be the most elegant route.

- Bert -

> On 4/26/10, Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> wrote:
>> 
>> I just tried to get the file list to display pictures, and realized that
>> there has been some bit rot in Squeak's features to handle graphics
>> embedded in text. AFAIK, there are two mechanisms: FormSetFont can
>> display forms as glyphs, and TextAnchor can embed arbitrary morphs in text.
>> 
>> Neither works (at least not without quite some tweaking).
>> 
>> This is sad, as otherwise it would be fairly simple to read a graphic
>> file and create a Text containing the graphic.
>> I think that would be the simplest route.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Hans-Martin