Re: Creating Forms

27 Mar 1998

      At 3:38 PM -0500 3/27/98, Mark Guzdial wrote:
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How are people creating forms in Squeak?  I want students to be able to
create forms for use in various ways.

The FormEditor doesn't seem to fileOut or fileIn anything -- at least, I

can't seem to read the bits in after I file them out.

The Morphic drawing editor is great, but I can't figure out how to read

in those objects and display them wherever I want.

I can do sketching of forms then do "Form fromUser", but that's a pretty

weak editing environment.

I can just surrender, do the forms elsewhere and save them as GIF, then

read them into Squeak.
Is there anybody playing with Forms on a regular basis in Squeak?  How are
you doing it?
Thanks!
Mark
We use the Morphic drawing editor to create and manipulate Forms.
To save a form use:
f writeOnFileNamed: 'test.form'.
To read it back in:
f := Form fromFileNamed: 'test.form'.
Easy!
-- John