I use IconFactory (which I wrote for this purpose) ( http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~peteruhnak/IconFactory or Catalog Browser ), it works in the same way as Pharo icons (base64 representation of the image which is then converted to a Form object).
Catalog browser offers also ExternalIconFamily but I have no knowledge of that. But I remember that someone was working on referencing external files, so maybe this is it. Peter On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > So how you guys covert image files to strings to be stored as method > sources ? > > I want to make a custom GUI that will contain a lot of images and I am a > bit on a dilema whether I should put the images as method source as we do > already with pharo icons OR just link to external files and find how I can > download those files from Pharo. > > No idea whats the best course of action . Any suggestions ? > >
