Aha, understood!
Thanks a lot :)

Cheers,
Alex

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Henrik Nergaard <henrik.nergaard@uia.no> wrote:

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From: Pharo-dev [mailto:pharo-dev-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Nergaard
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:47 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Morphic magician requested. What is referencePosition?

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#referencePostion returns the specified center for the morph in global coordinates.

By default this will be the same as ���self bounds origin + (self bounds extent/2.0)��� but can have other depending on what #rotationCenter returns.

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#referencePositon: on the other hand do not set a new centre, but moves the morph to a new position by using the referencePosition as origin instead of its top left corner.

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Looking at Morph>>#handleDropMorph: referencePosition is used to place the dropped morph in centre of the new owner.

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#transformedFrom: translates the dropped morph ���center��� to the receiving morph local coordinates (local from the owning transformationMorph) if it has an owner which is a transformation type Morph (see implementors #tranformFrom:) .

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Best regards,

Henrik

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From: Pharo-dev [mailto:pharo-dev-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Aliaksei Syrel
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:12 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
Subject: [Pharo-dev] Morphic magician requested. What is referencePosition?

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Hi

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Do anyone know what is Morph>>#referencePosition and why is it used to handle drag and drop?

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Here is what method doc says:

"Return the current reference position of the receiver"

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Thanks,

Alex