Hi all,

How does the File List "know" that an image file is a Form, and therefore
to send the file services message(s) to the Form class? It seems that this
isn't present in ImageReadWriter directly (or any of its subclasses). If we
can "intercept" that part of the process for GIFs, we can introduce a
custom "open" command that will display and AnimatedImageMorph if there are
multiple frames, or a regular ImageMorph/SketchMorph if there is only a
single frame. I'm just having a bit of trouble tracking down the "flow"
from the time of clicking an image file in the file list...

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 2:08 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> No objections (even though always offering text mode does not harm).
>
> It's just about the implementation complexity - as of today, file services
> do not have any "override" semantics. :-)
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christoph
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> > On 2022-05-05, at 5:55 AM, Thiede, Christoph <
> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, there are two "open" services for GIF files. See Form
> class>>#fileReaderServicesForFile:suffix: and AnimatedImageMorph
> class>>#fileReaderServicesForFile:suffix:.
> >
> > <pastedImage.png>
> > <pastedImage.png>
>
> There's way too many options in that list. And indeed two copies of 'use
> graphic as background' to add wrongness.
>
> I suggest at a maximum
>
> open as morph
> add to ImageImports (does anybody actually use that?)
> open as background
>
>
> tim
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Eric
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