Browse access to FileList variable brevityState

Best,
Karl

On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 2:35 PM Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
>> Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2022 19:49:57
>> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Graphics-mt.515.mcz
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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