> I am doing some simulation work on cellular (wireless)
> telecommunication systems. I am trying to programmatically create a
> Morph with the following properties:
>
> A 'map' consisting of lattice of hexagons covering a 2-dimensional
> area. Each hexagon represents a cell site, the area served by a
> particular cellular base station. Each cellSite (hexagon) is further
> subdivided into a number of identical angular Sectors - typically 3
> or 6. I would like to be able to manipulate such a morph at either
> the map level, the cellSite level, or the sector level with respect
> to resizing, etc.
>
> So far, I have created sectors using polygon morphs. By combining
> sector morphs I can create  cellSite morphs, and by specifying a
> number of appropriately positioned cellSites, I can create a map.
> However I am not sure what kind of morphs the composites (cellSite
> and map) should be.  I image that the container morphs contain a
> collection of subMorphs - ie a Map containes several cellSite
> subMorphs, a cell site contains several sectors, etc. Resizing a map
> should resize all constituent cellSites, etc.
The choice of a base class isn't too important unless there's some
other behavior you need.
I'd subclass Morph for both of these, and override layoutInBounds: to
do the proper child layout.