"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> > While we're looking at this area, here's a suggestion. Can we 
> > get rid of the resizing of every morph to be 9999 wide?
> 
> The reason for this is mostly to avoid (potentially expensive) resizing of
> StringMorphs when you resize a PLM. In other words, with your changes (which
> I haven't tried) it is likely that you have to click exactly on the string
> and not "to the right" before the string ends. While I don't consider the
> current solution to be very nice, the UI problems that your solution
> introduces seem much worse to me.
Surely the maximum practical size that is relevant is the Display width?
Actually I guess it is really (Display width - morph left) but plain
Display width would probably do.

tim
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