Thanks.  That did the trick.  I just copied wantsKeyboardFocusFor: to my 
class.  This makes it a little harder to get at the menu, but I'm guessing 
that if I  hook into the UpdatingStringMorph's event handler I can make 
that work too.

At 10:09 AM 4/26/01 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thursday 26 April 2001 09:40, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Thanks to the advice I have the alignment and display fixed up.  However,
> > I'm still unable to edit the text.  Also, overriding
> > #addCustomMenuItems:hand: doesn't do anything--I suspect for the same
> > reason, lack of focus.
>
>Use an AlignmentMorph rather than a RectangleMorph as the parent. Look at
>wantsKeyboardFocusFor: (one of the few differences between an AlignmentMorph
>and a RectangleMorph). You'll also probably have to set color: and
>borderWidth: to make it look like your Rectangle. And you may not want to use
>#shrinkWrap for hResizing, as your size may grow with the UpdatingStringMorph.
>
>--
>Ned Konz
>currently: Stanwood, WA
>email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
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