[squeak-dev] Where's the border?

Two simple examples executed in a Workspace:

| butt |
butt := StringMorph contents: 'Play'.
butt borderWidth: 5; borderColor: Color red.
butt openInWorld

| butt |
butt := Morph new.
butt borderWidth: 5; borderColor: Color red.
butt openInWorld

Plain Morph displays border as expected.
The StringMorph has no border! (Inspecting it, I find that its extension has a SimpleBorder, width = 5 and color = red. Yet it doesn't show)

What's happening?

(Squeak Squeak3.10.gamma.7159.image)

And I thought I was beginning to understand Morphic :-(
--Trygve

Am 03.10.2008 um 08:55 schrieb Trygve Reenskaug:

StringMorph>>drawOn: does no super send.

> (Squeak Squeak3.10.gamma.7159.image)
>
> And I thought I was beginning to understand Morphic :-(

Morphic prefers compositing complex objects over having one object do  
complex things. So embed a String into a Morph to get a bordered String.

- Bert -