Another good resource for getting to know about layouts is to use 
Viewers.  Try this, for example:

Open up the Objects tool and from the "presentation" category get a 
Column or a Row.

Open up a Viewer on that row or column, and choose the "layout" category.

Now twiddle with the values of the layout parameters in the Viewer; 
you'll be  able to see the results immediately on the morph. 
Twiddling further parameters in the "color & border" and "basic" 
categories may also be useful in such explorations.

Cheers,

  -- Scott


At 9:39 AM -0800 1/26/04, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2004 7:50 am, Ramiro Diaz Trepat wrote:
> >  Regarding the laying out of Morphs, I've seen that in the TableLayout it
> >  is not
> >  posile to "fix" a specific number of rows and columns.  When you resize
> >  the main
> >  container window, components scroll up or down like if they were words
> >  on a word processor.
> 
> You can add more interior morphs to do this. For a forced 2 column display,
> you can do this:
> 
> 	MyMorph (table, left-to-right, no wrap)
> 		column1 (table, top-to-bottom, no wrap)
> 			other morphs
> 		column2 (table, top-to-bottom, no wrap)
> 			other morphs
> 
>   > Besides that, I also could not find a way to tell
> >  the
> >   layout manager that a specific component might occupy, for instance 3 
> >  cells horizontally and 1 vertically.
> >  I am sure that these things are resolved in some way in Squeak, if anybody
> >  could point me a *complex* window layout example to learn from it would be
>   > great.
> 
> Andreas made a very nice Active Essay about the layouts. It's on SqueakMap.