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How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463571]

Wed, 09 November 2005 13:40

Thomas Mauch

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello

We're currently developping an application for a touch screen interface.
Therefore all controls should be larger than normal. This is no problem
for Label or Text where I just can set the font appropriately.

How can I however make the check and radio buttons larger than normal?
Obviously setting the font just makes the label text larger but not the
button itself.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Thomas

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Re: How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463579 is a reply to message #463571]

Wed, 09 November 2005 16:53

Steve Northover

Messages: 1636
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The operating system theme manager draws the check and radio indicator, not
SWT. Perhaps you could choose a theme that has large fonts and indicators?

"Thomas Mauch" <thomas.mauch@swisslog.com> wrote in message
news:dksu8n$aok$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Hello
>
> We're currently developping an application for a touch screen interface.
> Therefore all controls should be larger than normal. This is no problem
> for Label or Text where I just can set the font appropriately.
>
> How can I however make the check and radio buttons larger than normal?
> Obviously setting the font just makes the label text larger but not the
> button itself.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

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Re: How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463586 is a reply to message #463579]

Wed, 09 November 2005 21:10

venkataramana m

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Registered: July 2009

Member

I was just curious to see the answer for this post. If changing theme is not an option, may be then custom SWT widgets may need to be implemented for larger size check and radio indicators on top of SWT (without any platform specific things).

Thanks
~Venkat

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Re: How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463589 is a reply to message #463586]

Thu, 10 November 2005 01:52

Daniel Spiewak

Messages: 263
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Could be done. But remember those custom widgets would be emulating the LAF of the native widgets and so you wouldn't have the real advantages of SWT.

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Re: How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463590 is a reply to message #463579]

Thu, 10 November 2005 07:33

Thomas Mauch

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

No so good news. I'am afraid the same is true for the scrollbar of a
Table and the font used by a MessageBox... Or is there an option to
change this?

Steve Northover wrote:
> The operating system theme manager draws the check and radio indicator, not
> SWT. Perhaps you could choose a theme that has large fonts and indicators?
>
> "Thomas Mauch" <thomas.mauch@swisslog.com> wrote in message
> news:dksu8n$aok$1@news.eclipse.org...
>

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Re: How to make check/radio button larger? [message #463599 is a reply to message #463590]

Thu, 10 November 2005 16:09

Steve Northover

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

These can all be changed from the Windows control panel.

"Thomas Mauch" <thomas.mauch@swisslog.com> wrote in message
news:dkut42$ogr$1@news.eclipse.org...
> No so good news. I'am afraid the same is true for the scrollbar of a
> Table and the font used by a MessageBox... Or is there an option to
> change this?
>
>
> Steve Northover wrote:
> > The operating system theme manager draws the check and radio indicator,
not
> > SWT. Perhaps you could choose a theme that has large fonts and
indicators?
> >
> > "Thomas Mauch" <thomas.mauch@swisslog.com> wrote in message
> > news:dksu8n$aok$1@news.eclipse.org...
> >

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