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From: sung@rigel.csc.ti.com ("Helen Chang ", sung@csc.ti.com)
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Subject: Re: How to display a composition?
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Date: 10 May 91 20:02:36 GMT
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Paul,


>   Compositions take a list of glyphs and break it into smaller pieces.
>   Then they build composite glyphs for each of the pieces.  This
>   functionality is usually associated with formatting text; breaking
>   paragraphs into lines and lines into columns are classic applications
>   of Compositions.
   
>   Helen, I can't see why your example needs a Composition at all.  If
>   you just want to display a column of Labels (and have the display
>   update when you add new items) then a simpler arrangement will
>   suffice.  Something like this, perhaps...
   
Thanks for the reply and codes.

However, I would like to arrange those label in a form like texts (but the
contents are all Labels of text string intead of individual characters).
I reduced codes to one layer of composite glyph hoping to find out why was
the display blurred.  The TBBox version also produces a similar image consists
of look-like randon green/blue/white spots (instead of readable text such as
"first line").  Why is it?

Thanks in advance.

Helen Chang