On Saturday 24 March 2001 00:39, Tom wrote:
> I would like to embed morphs in text and have them flow with the text.
> Is this possible?
>
> Despite dilligent digging, the only kinds of embeddings I could find by
> looking at the code are:
>
>     -- morphs can be embedded at particular coordinates inside a "Text"
>        object; the text will flow around the embedded morph (well, most
>        of the time)

TextMorph has the "avoidOcclusions" flag. The "Fun with Morphic" project that 
comes with the stock image demonstrates an example of this.

>     -- text can be made special through text properties so that something
>        happens when you click on it

You can associate a variety of actions with pieces of text. See the cmd-6 
actions (you can associate text with arbitrary code, or a URL, etc.)

> What I'm looking for is the following:
>
>     -- I'd like to embed a morph in the text as if it were a glyph;
>        by default, HTML images act that way, and the Tk text widget
>        offers this functionality as well
>
> What would also be useful would be this:
>
>     -- I'd like to embed a morph in the text similar to what
>        <img align=left ...> and similar do; that is, the morph
>        would be associated with a particular text location, but
>        the text would still flow around it.
>
> Is there some magical morph that I didn't find?

Also look at the GeeMailMorph, which knows how to anchor Morphs to text.

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Ned Konz
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