Hi Dimitry , i've did an external icon family importer and manager. It's in squeaksource, under the name of ExternalIconFamily. Gofer it squeaksource: 'ExternalIconFamily'; package: 'ExternalIconFamily'; load. This framework allows importing and managing any external icon family. Once imported , the icon family is reified into the image, as a subclass of ExternalIconFamily. As an example it comes with a tiny subset of the Oxygen icon family imported. Try out this examples: ExternalIconFamilyOxygenTinySubsetExample openAllIcons morph := ImageMorph named: 'apply' size: 64 familyNamed: 'OxygenTinySubsetExample'. morph openInWorld. I've posted a couple of screenshots to the mailing list last year, with Examples for the complete set of Oxygen icons, the tango icons and the World Flag icons. If you want i can upload the generated classes , filed out in .st files. Let me know if it works for you! Fernando pd: Smalltalk and Metaprogramming rocks! The importer is heavily based on programmatically adding class methods. pd: look at the squeaksource page for more detail on creating your own families. I should create a help system book also. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

I know that fernando was building an infrastructure for icons. But I did not see him recently on the list.

Stef

On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

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Hi,

Suppose I need to bundle a Pharo application (a package) I am developing with some custom icons: is there any "standard"/ agreed-upon method to do that in Pharo?

For example the MenuIcons class includes byte strings (automatically I assume) converted from some external PNG files that show up as icons with menu items: which tool can be used to create a class with set of icons for an arbitrary application?

If I want to reuse icons for standard actions in my application, which is the proper way to access menu icons other than to directly access these stored images?

Thanks.

PS Other than the "by example" books (both Squeak and Pharo) which give some basics of building GUI for applications, are there any general guidelines for GUI building in these systems?

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky@gmail.com> wrote:

OK, great. Thanks everybody who answered.

The response from Hernán mentioning the createNewIconMethodsFromDirectory: method looks interesting.

I'll try the other methods too.

Thanks.

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