[squeak-dev] [Urgent][4.1.1] Squeak screen shot and backgrounds /
display of pictures
Hannes Hirzel
hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 22:56:18 UTC 2010
Hello Bert
On 4/26/10, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 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.
I think I did understand Martin quite well.
> Squeak's "Text" class does support embedded graphics.
Yes, I am aware of this. I have used it in the past.
>This is way more
> powerful and elegant than cooking up a FileList replacement, or extending
> FileList with a special bitmap preview facility.
My concern at _this_ very moment is that Squeak 4.1 does not have a
preview for graphic files in the FileList.
Having that will solve the immediate problem that a new person who
starts to use the FileList will think: "what have these guys been
doing all the time if can't display a graphic image in the file
explorer?"
>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).
Yes, sure. That is a good solution.
> 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 :)
It would be great to have that back.
> In any case I agree with HMM that this would be the most elegant route.
I agree too but who is going to fix the Text class ....
> - Bert -
Cheers
-- Hannes
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