--- a/VerticalPanelView.st	Sun Oct 26 21:14:57 2008 +0100
+++ b/VerticalPanelView.st	Sun Oct 26 21:15:50 2008 +0100
@@ -1024,8 +1024,12 @@
 
     |sumOfHeights maxWidth maxHeight m2 subViews|
 
-    "/ If I have an explicit preferredExtent ..
+    "/ If I have an explicit preferredExtent..
+    explicitExtent notNil ifTrue:[
+        ^ explicitExtent
+    ].
 
+    "/ If I have a cached preferredExtent value..
     preferredExtent notNil ifTrue:[
         ^ preferredExtent
     ].
@@ -1101,5 +1105,5 @@
 !VerticalPanelView class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libwidg/VerticalPanelView.st,v 1.46 2008-07-22 14:15:08 cg Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libwidg/VerticalPanelView.st,v 1.47 2008-10-26 20:15:50 stefan Exp $'
 ! !