--- a/PanelView.st	Mon Mar 23 16:18:40 2009 +0100
+++ b/PanelView.st	Tue Mar 24 16:35:41 2009 +0100
@@ -442,6 +442,59 @@
 
 !PanelView methodsFor:'layout'!
 
+preferredExtent
+    "return a good extent, one that makes subviews fit.
+     Note that width is considered as given, and compute height here."
+
+    |subViews xpos totalHeight maxHeightInRow first|
+
+    "/ If I have an explicit preferredExtent..
+    explicitExtent notNil ifTrue:[
+        ^ explicitExtent
+    ].
+
+    "/ If I have a cached preferredExtent value..
+    preferredExtent notNil ifTrue:[
+        ^ preferredExtent
+    ].
+
+    subViews := self subViewsToConsider.
+    subViews isEmptyOrNil ifTrue:[
+        ^ super preferredExtent.
+    ].
+
+    xpos := horizontalSpace.
+
+    totalHeight := 0.
+    maxHeightInRow := 0.
+    first := true.
+
+    subViews do:[:eachChild | |childPreferredExtent|
+        childPreferredExtent := eachChild preferredExtent.
+        
+        "go to next row, if this subview won't fit"
+        first ifFalse: [
+            (xpos + childPreferredExtent x + horizontalSpace) > width
+            ifTrue: [
+                xpos := horizontalSpace.
+                totalHeight := totalHeight + maxHeightInRow + verticalSpace.
+                maxHeightInRow := 0.
+            ]
+        ].
+
+        xpos := xpos + (childPreferredExtent x) + horizontalSpace.
+        (maxHeightInRow < (childPreferredExtent y)) ifTrue:[
+            maxHeightInRow := childPreferredExtent y.
+        ].
+        first := false
+    ].
+    maxHeightInRow ~= 0 ifTrue:[
+        totalHeight := totalHeight + maxHeightInRow + verticalSpace.
+    ].
+
+    ^ width @ totalHeight
+!
+
 setChildPositions
     "(re)compute position of every child.
      This method is redefined for different layout characteristics - you may
@@ -565,5 +618,5 @@
 !PanelView class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libwidg/PanelView.st,v 1.41 2009-02-26 16:48:59 fm Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libwidg/PanelView.st,v 1.42 2009-03-24 15:35:41 stefan Exp $'
 ! !