What's the benefit in adjusting the width to the screen width, anyway?
When I get a halo on a StringMorph in a list, it will still annoyingly
go all the way to the right side of the screen whether its width is
1280 or 9999.  No extra drawing is done with a width of 9999.  Etc.

Joshua

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:12:32PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:54 pm, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> > > 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 you change the window or screen size.
> Sure, but why is that an issue? IIRC Andreas made the point that one
> wouldn't want to resize these morphs all the time, which leads me to
> believe that they can be resized. Assuming that this is true, what would
> be wrong with resizing them on the rare occasions that the Display is
> resized? After all a pretty big redraw is done then anyway. I'm not
> particularly invested in any of this but it does seem like keeping
> the morph size realistic might be a help is reducing the excessive
> redrawing that is claimed to be part of the morphic performance drain.
> And that is something I'd really like to see improved. 
> 
> tim
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