Files

Another (to me) dark corner of the system.

In this ML post, Lukas says:

MAFileModel represents a file in Smalltalk. It knows the filename, mimetype, size, contents, etc. MAExternalFileModel is no different, other than it stores the file contents externally to the image (see class comment). The location and naming of this file is managed automatically, you cannot change it.

Initially, I just want to use these to display links to files that are on the disk. Presumably that will use MAExternalFileModel somehow.

AFAIK other people have written MAFileModel subclasses that refer to a specific external file.