On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> I was just wondering if someone could throw me some sanity for a moment. :)
> 
> I'm banging my head against SystemWindow right now...it never seems to do what 
> I want it to do!  Take this example...I've got a RectangleMorph of a given 
> size.  I want to wrap that in a SystemWindow.  Simple, right?  Well, it never 
> works for me.

The problem is that 1) your window doens't have a model, thus it relies on
the default initialExtent (which is 570 at 350); this is true even if you
used the rectangle as the model since it doesn't have a specific, special
initialExtent, 2) #openInWorld uses the #initialExtent.

So the simple solution is to change the last line of your snippet to:

	 syswin openInWorldExtent: newExtent

This seemed to work for me in 2.8 (tiny window, white rect).

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.