Hi Göran,

Long question, short answer: The way I figure it using AlignmentMorph
instead of any other serves kinda like documentation for the intent of
using that morph. E.g., if you see that an alignment morph is being used
you might expect that its purpose is to act as an aligner for the
objects it holds. In that sense it is still useful and considering how
much stuff is built on it I don't think it's realistic to "clean up"
this part of morphic in a foreseeable time.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: AlignmentMorph...?
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> As Alan Grimes also asked, what is the story?
> 
> I know that this class is not needed anymore since Morph has these
> abilities nowadays and I know that there are numerous pages 
> on the Swiki
> that explains how to use that instead but I still have some questions:
> 
> 1. Why is it still being used? Chess even uses it and that is 
> written by
> Andreas Raab I think AFTER he did the TableLayout stuff etc. Or am I
> wrong? Andreas?
> 
> 2. What should I use instead? Some examples use a RectangleMorph as a
> general container, some other use a BorderedMorph I think and so on.
> Hmmm, I will read up on this more but perhaps you can give me 
> some short
> fast answers here...
> 
> 3. Has Browser been updated in this regard? CodeHolder and 
> Browser still
> uses AlignmentMorph (and that code is what I base my SqueakMap browser
> on and I want to do this the "currently correct way")
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> PS. If it had a CLASS COMMENT telling me this story I wouldn't pester
> the list... :-) DS
>