| Hey Jan, While debugging the flow view problem with relative origin parents, I found this little gem: ( // this works w = GUI.window.new("test", Rect(20, 20, 300, 300)).front; c = GUI.compositeView.new(w, Rect(100, 100, 100, 100)) .background_(Color.gray(0.9)) .relativeOrigin_(true); t = GUI.staticText.new(c, Rect(0, 0, 90, 20)).string_("hello"); ) // this don't t.bounds = Rect(4, 4, 90.0, 20.0); The trouble is, this is exactly how decorators work -- the new view gets placed initially using the original bounds, then the decorator's place method is called which sets the new view's bounds to the calculated position. I can fix it in SCView like this, but maybe for performance this logic should be moved into the backend? + SCView { bounds_ { arg rect; var parentView, parentBounds; if((parentView = this.parent.asView).relativeOrigin) { parentBounds = parentView.bounds; this.setProperty(\bounds, rect.moveBy(parentBounds.left, parentBounds.top)); } { this.setProperty(\bounds, rect) }; } } Let me know if this change is okay to commit, or if you would rather do do it in the primitive. hjh : H. James Harkins : jamshark70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx : http://www.dewdrop-world.net .::!:.:.......:.::........:..!.::.::...:..:...:.:.:.:..: "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman |