Re: [Squeakland] pasting new
morph
Hi, Sholom,
Unfortunately, you can't use cut-and-paste to import external
graphics into Squeak.
To bring a picture into Squeak, you need to have it in a *file*,
not just on the clipboard. So if you have a picture on the
Clipboard and you want to import it into Squeak, you'll first need to
go through the intermediate step (outside of Squeak) of creating a
file to hold the picture.
[On the Mac, for example, you could start up the Preview
application, choose "New from Clipboard" to import the
picture into a Preview document, then use "Save" to save the
resulting document into a disk file.]
There are several ways of importing a file-based graphic into
Squeak, of which perhaps the two easiest are:
(1) In the Finder, use drag-and-drop to "drop"
the file onto a running Squeak; you'll see desired picture appear as a
new SketchMorph within the Squeak window.
(2) Alternatively, from within Squeak, open the golden
Navigator, and hold the mouse down on the "Find" button
until a menu appears. Choose "find any file" from this
menu. In the ensuing blue file-chooser, choose the desired file,
and hit the "Open" button to bring it into Squeak.
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 7:50 PM -0500 2/20/06, Sholom Eisenstat wrote:
I'm trying to remember how images are brought into
Squeak as new morphs.
If I copy an image from some source, and then bring up the
desktop menu, there's a 'new morph' choice. However, selecting 'paste
from buffer' only works if the image has been cut from Squeak
itself.
What am I missing?
Sholom Eisenstat
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