On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 16:54:55 -0700 Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> > While we're looking at this area, here's a suggestion. Can we 
>> > get rid of the resizing of every morph to be 9999 wide?
>> 
>> The reason for this is mostly to avoid (potentially expensive) resizing of
>> StringMorphs when you resize a PLM. In other words, with your changes (which
>> I haven't tried) it is likely that you have to click exactly on the string
>> and not "to the right" before the string ends. While I don't consider the
>> current solution to be very nice, the UI problems that your solution
>> introduces seem much worse to me.
>Surely the maximum practical size that is relevant is the Display width?
>Actually I guess it is really (Display width - morph left) but plain
>Display width would probably do.

Until, of course, the window in which Squeak is running is resized and "Display width" takes on a new value. 

Cheers,
Bob