On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Benjamin Van Ryseghem-2 wrote
>> Here shrinkWrap will not work since the SpecLayout defines an absolute
>> layout for every widget.
>
> Okay, so there's no way currently to do something like shrinkWrap? It seems
> that there has to be a mechanism in Spec that provides an easy way to get to
> lower level Morphic things like this, at least until we flesh out exactly
> what needs to be supported to cover the use cases.
Here it's not that trivial, because for #shrinkWrap to make sense, it means
that the layout is not a PorportionalLayout, but something more elaborated.
>
> Benjamin Van Ryseghem-2 wrote
>> Moreover it's a bit weird since you then specify the height of the column
>> :)
>
> #height was going to the row; it was just formatted confusingly
ok, my bad :)
>
> Benjamin Van Ryseghem-2 wrote
>> If you want to tackle (a bit) this problem ,you may use extent: to do
>> something
>
> In other words, when something changes, manually change the extent to match
> the contents, simulating shrinkWrap?
Yes, it;s hawkish, but may work.
Otherwise you could even rebuild the layout. More hawkish :s
>
> Benjamin Van Ryseghem-2 wrote
>> Adding different layout would also be a solution, but it will require some
>> work :)
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Will you say more?
One could have something like
SpecTableLayout composed
add: ...
or
SpecMyStrangeLayout composed
add: …
But then you have to implement it :)
(Should be that complicated though, but still it takes time ^^)
Ben
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