On Thursday 12 August 2004 6:54 am, Daria Spescha wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I have again a problem: I need text fields with different
> shapes, for example ellipse text fields …

You can put a TextMorph into an Ellipse and then tell it to "fill owner's 
shape" and if you want "avoid occlusions" and it will use the Ellipse's 
shadow as its bounds when re-composing.

> NCTextRectangle behaves exactly as I want the ellipse text to behave,
> but I couldn't find out which part is important for that.

The TableLayout/shrinkWrap interaction only works with rectangular morphs.

What happens when you tell a TextMorph to fill the owner's shape is that it 
stops composing when it runs out of room.

You could test for this in a step method somewhere. Here's one that I put in 
an EllipseMorph subclass (assumes a TextMorph is its first submorph):

step
	| tm para sel |
	tm := submorphs at: 1 ifAbsent: [ ^self ].
	tm is
	para := tm paragraph.
	para text size > para lines last last ifTrue: [
		"ran out of room to display the text; make the container bigger"
		sel := tm editor selectionInterval.
		self extent: (self extent + (4 at 4)).
		self fullBounds.
		tm selectFrom: sel start to: sel end. ]


This seems to work OK if the stepTime is fast enough.

-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com