Help with Rotating a Box

> I've been playing with a Morphic implementation of "Joe the box" for an
> intro programming course.  It shouldn't be hard, right?
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> The problem is rotation.  It's easy to rotate a polygon morph, but I can't
> get a TextMorph (for the name) to rotate and stay centered.  My next attempt
> (attached), was to use a transformation morph.  This almost works, except
> that when rotating from a non-manhattan orientation, smurfs get left on the
> display.
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> The code is attached.
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> I try doing this in a workspace:
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> joe := NamedBoxMorph2 new.
> joe name: 'Fred'.
> joe openInWorld.
> joe color: Color lightBlue.
> joe turn: -45.
> joe turn: 45.
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> Do the
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>        joe turn: +/- 45
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> a few times.  Bits of the rectangle are left on the display.  Is this a bug
> in morphic, or a bug in my code (more likely)?  Is tehre an easy fix/
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> The critical method from the filein is this one, I think:
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> BoxMorph2 >> initialize
>        "initialize this BoxMorph so that it looks like a Box in BoxWorld"
>        | rectangle b |
>        super initialize.
>        smoothing := 3.
>        b := Rectangle origin: 85 @ 200 extent: 80 @ 80.
>        rectangle := RectangleMorph new.
>        rectangle bounds: b.
>        rectangle color: Color transparent.
>        rectangle borderWidth: 1.
>        self addMorphCentered: rectangle.
>        self bounds: b.
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> I tired making the bounds of the boxMorph a pixel or two bigger (in the last
> line): this didn't help.
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> Any ideas?
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>        Andrew
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