Doh. Difference between reviewing and testing. Deleted the width: line
in my image, and all is good. The update effect is prettier. Plus I
actually think the "halos require precise click" thing is a feature, not
a bug. Bringing up halos isn't a list operation.

Anyone played with the 2nd version? any comments?

Daniel

Eddie Cottongim <cottonsqueak at earthlink.net> wrote:
> How can I produce these problems? Clicking to the right of the text is
> working fine. Resizing my screen and all the various other doomsday
> scenarios suggested by other commenters does not cause any problems. I will
> be happy to look at any issues if someone can help demonstrate them to me.
> 
> You'll notice that PLM>>itemFromPoint: is used to locate the morph for a
> click position, and it doesn't care about width. Thats why it works.
> 
> The only time I see a difference is if I try to use the halo system to
> select a StringMorph, in which case I must click on the item, and not
> somewhere to the right of it. I don't care much about that, but it can
> probably be taken care of. Oh, and one or two subclasses need their
> highlighting adjusted. I might get around to that when/if this sacred cow is
> in my hamburger bun.
> 
> Eddie
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
> To: "'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:34 PM
> Subject: RE: [ENH][Refactor] PLMCleanUpStart
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas