Eric Scharff wrote:
I have a bunch of tiny pictures that I use as icons in a UI. Originally I made the UI in Morphic using direct manipulation (filing in the GIF icons by hand) but have encapsulated that stuff into code.
What is the best way to get the whole thing into a change set? I would guess the best thing would be to create class methods to generate the Forms, either from the original GIF data or some other form.
Is there an easy (or generally accepted) way to do this?
I've used the storeString of my forms in such situations. For icons with a small extent and small number of colors that works pretty well. If your icons are somewhat larger and more colorful, store a stringified version of their GIF data in a method instead, and unpack that into a class variable which serves as a cache for the thing.
Cheers, Hans-Martin
Here is an example using a well-known icon...
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