On Tuesday 20 May 2003 01:08 pm, Brian Brown wrote:

>    My question relates to the ways of laying out groupings of
> morphs within an "application". Simplistically I would create a
> RectangleMorph or PasteUpMorph, give it a TableLayout (#leftToRight
> for example) and then add Morphs with I would intend to be
> containers for text, buttons etc.... so this strategy is to use
> multiply nested Morphs with appropriate Layouts in order to arrange
> the elements in the way I want them.

That's one way to do it.

> Is the how people do this in Morphic? If so, how would I deal with
> dynamically sizing those element?

By combinations of hResizing and vResizing settings (#spaceFill, 
#shrinkWrap, or #rigid).

> I've see a couple of examples
> using proportional layout, but when I start from scratch I can't
> seem to lay things out as I wish, it seems that I am missing
> something fundamental as to the logic.

Proportional layout is also easy to do.

Can you show us what you've tried to do?
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