Subtle (?) Morphic Design questions

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Oct 1 14:42:14 UTC 2003


Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:21 pm, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> > When you want a morph to be populated with a bunch of strings that
> > won't need direct manipulation, should you use #drawOn:, or just
> > add a bunch of StringMorphs?
> 
> Try adding the StringMorphs first since it's easier.
> Decide later if you need to do something difference.
> 
> Though it's certainly easy to draw things in Morphic as well.
> 

This is my default as well.  With a real StringMorph, you get
automatical layout which can really save you some hassle and bugs.  I've
seen multiple Squeak programs bomb out when a window is resized and its
width is no longer a multiple of 2...  :)


-Lex



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