Window Frames for system windows
Karl Ramberg
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Fri Jul 21 16:39:11 UTC 2000
A while ago somebody updated some code for system windows ( in 2.8 alpha ? ),
more specifically it helped with the optional buttons.
Those reside in aligment morphs and streched often outside the
bounds of the system window before the change i mention.
Karl
"Norton, Chris" wrote:
>
> Hi Jim.
>
> Jim Benson wrote:
> "Part of this bug is the way that the AlignmentMorph draws. If you look at
> the method:
>
> AlignmentMorph#drawSubmorphsOn:
>
> You'll notice that it clips to the bounds of the owner Morph. In a
> SystemWindow, that includes the frame area. Consequently, the frame area
> gets over written. Note that this is also true of a SystemWindow without the
> window frame code filed in, in the example that you have a border width > 1
> for a regular SystemWindow. One solution is to check if the owner is a
> SystemWindow and ask for the inner bounds, but I'm not sure what the general
> purpose solution should be. I'd like to hear suggestions. I would think that
> you always want to write within the borders of the owner morph, but I don't
> know what the consequences of that are."
>
> [Chris Norton] I haven't given this much thought, but it strikes me that
> submorphs should never be allowed to write beyond the bounds of their
> owners. Given that assumption, it would seem to me that all owners should
> support an "innerBounds" or a region that their submorphs can freely step
> on. If all morphs support the "innerBounds" convention, then any given
> morph can only resize up to the size of it's owner's innerBounds.
>
> What do you think? I think this should be a convention that all morphs
> subscribe to.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---==> Chris
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