Well, above code depends on some bytes left on some file on the internet,
plus a bunch of methods to retrieve/decode/install those bytes as an image.
We could as well imagine a shorter path...


2013/12/8 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>

> MorphicExtras is "extras" so we can expect it to depend on myriad
> other packages.  I'm surprised you and Frank aren't harping on such a
> "catch-all" package.
>
> I thought to test the waters of making it a dynamic-dependency.
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On one hand, I find those bytes very useful if ever we'd like to
> recreate an
> > image.
> > But on the other hand, it creates a dependency.
> > This makes a nice packaging problem, how to handle it?
> > One possibility would be to encode image data in some kind of literal
> > (packed string, byte array, ...), and store & decode this literal in some
> > class initialization method...
> > Anyway, the name and location of file does not bring much value now (just
> > save a few bytes by avoiding duplication of image in a literal).
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/7 <commits at source.squeak.org>
> >
> >> Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of MorphicExtras to project The
> >> Trunk:
> >> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/MorphicExtras-nice.130.mcz
> >>
> >> ==================== Summary ====================
> >>
> >> Name: MorphicExtras-nice.130
> >> Author: nice
> >> Time: 7 December 2013, 3:18:35 pm
> >> UUID: f1cfb1fa-c101-4329-b528-963fb90eef45
> >> Ancestors: MorphicExtras-fbs.129
> >>
> >> Some initialization performed once in last century is depending on
> >> UpdateStream.
> >>
> >> =============== Diff against MorphicExtras-fbs.129 ===============
> >>
> >> Item was changed:
> >>   ----- Method: PaintBoxMorph>>loadColorChooser (in category
> >> 'initialization') -----
> >>   loadColorChooser
> >>         "Load Forms for ColorMemoryMorph."
> >>
> >>         | doc closedForm openForm |
> >> +       doc := UpdateStreamDownloader default objectStrmFromUpdates:
> >> 'colorPalClosed.obj'.
> >> -       doc := Utilities objectStrmFromUpdates: 'colorPalClosed.obj'.
> >>         closedForm := doc fileInObjectAndCode mapColor: Color
> transparent
> >> to: Color black.
> >> +       doc := UpdateStreamDownloader default objectStrmFromUpdates:
> >> 'colorPalOpen.obj'.
> >> -       doc := Utilities objectStrmFromUpdates: 'colorPalOpen.obj'.
> >>         openForm := doc fileInObjectAndCode mapColor: Color transparent
> >> to: Color black.
> >>
> >>         colorMemoryThin image: closedForm.
> >>         colorMemoryThin position: self position + (0 at 140).
> >>
> >>         colorMemory delete.     "delete old one"
> >>         colorMemory := PaintBoxColorPicker new image: openForm.
> >>   !
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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