Lynn,

   I'm new to Morphic too and I've just recently done some basic
morphic work. If you go to SqueakMap, and download InformationSpace,
in there you will find a class called InformationSpaceController. In
the private catagory there are two methods of interest;
privateCreateTextBoxes and privateCreateButtons. Also look in the
class method openInWorld for an example of dealing with a
SystemWindow. privateCreateTextBoxes is where I do a lot of
positioning work and is a good example of programmatically adding and
positioning morphs. The one thing I haven't done is the pasteUpMorph,
so the boxes don't behave when you re-size. I'm new to morphic too, so
I'm still learning.

Note, you can also download the source from
http://www.softcentral.com/informationspace/download.html

I hope that helps.

-Brian T


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:15:18 -0600, Lynn Hales <lhales at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm going crazy trying to simply create a SystemWindow with horizontal
> and vertical scroll bars and programmatically add morphs and connector morphs to it.  I want to be
> able to select and move morphs without having to alt left click until
> I get the popup menu for the morph.  I
> also want to be able to resize the System Window and have all
> submorphs behave.
> 
> It seems to me I need to:
> 1. create SystemWindow
> 2. add a pasteUpMorph to it.
> 3. set the pasteUpMorph to be large ( larger than the systemWindow,
> but have its upper left corner always coincide with the upper left
> corner of the systemWindow.
> 4. have the scroll bars on the systemWindow scroll around to different
> locations on the pasteUpMorph.
> 5. Be able to drop or programmatically add morphs to the pasteUpMorph
> at the dropped positions or at the programmatically determined
> positions.
> 
> Could someone give me some pseudo code for me to work from or
> pointers or tell me where my assumptions are wrong.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
>  Lynn                          mailto:lhales at earthlink.net
> 
>