That's for the flowing of text between several morphs (like columns,
or what prepress applications do) I believe?

On 10 November 2011 16:50, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> looks like the purpose is to make multiple morphs, displaying
> different (but adjacent) portions of one text..
>
> But what i don't understand is what is the practical use of it? Is
> there an examples of such use of TextMorph(s)?
> As to me this looks a bit of over-enineering:
> morph represents a view of some model.
> Nothing prevents us from creating multiple different views of same
> model (a text in this case). And i don't get, what do we gain by
> letting them know about each other.
> If there is a need to have a coordination between views, i think it
> would be much simpler to have some centralized parent object/morph,
> which managing additional complexity related with such
> composition.
>
>
> The functionality seems to be working:
>  in text morph's halo, click on its menu , and there will be
>  'add predecessor'
> and
> 'add successor'
> menu items, which creating a fresh text morphs over same text and put
> it in ?hand?
>
> i am clueless, what is purpose of this and whether it belongs to right
> place.. that's why i asking.
> (i would just throw it away ;)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
>



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