Hi Christoph --

It might help if you remember a preciseExtent in TransformationMorph to then be used during its updates.

This is not a bug in TableLayout.
This is not a specific bug in Morphic.
It is a design issue; all coordinates (or bounds) in Morphic are integer at the moment.

You can observe similar issues when changing the scale factor back and forth.

Best,
Marcel
Am 24.08.2022 20:12:46 schrieb christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
Hi all,

I've observed and reproduced a case of "volatile table layout" in Morphic:

    inner := Morph new color: Color red.
    f := inner addFlexShell
        scale: 0.4;
        yourself.
    
    outer := Morph new color: Color yellow.
    outer changeTableLayout.
    outer addMorph: f.
    outer addMorph: (Morph new extent: 30 @ 10).
    
    f layoutChanged. outer fullBounds. f scale. "0.38888888888888895"
    f layoutChanged. outer fullBounds. f scale. "0.37654320987654327"
    f layoutChanged. outer fullBounds. f scale. "0.36282578875171484"
    "..."

The incremental shrinkage of #scale takes place in TransformationMorph>>extent: (see screenshot). I suppose this is the cause of a rounding error (scale is exact, but bounds/fullBounds are rounded), but I'm not sure. The following stabilizes my concrete case, but I'm not sure whether this is the actual solution or just a workaround:

     TransformationMorph >> extent: newExtent
    
    +     self extent = newExtent ifTrue: [^ self].
         self renderedMorph == self
             ifTrue: [super extent: newExtent]
             ifFalse: [
                 self adjustAfter: [
                     | scaleFactor |
                     scaleFactor := (self scale * newExtent r / self fullBounds extent r) max: 0.1.
                     self scale: (scaleFactor detentBy: 0.1 atMultiplesOf: 1.0 snap: false)]].

Looking forward to your feedback!

Best,
Christoph

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