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Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893217]

Tue, 03 July 2012 09:14

Elvis Dominguez

Messages: 52
Registered: July 2009
Location: Switzerland

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Hi all,

I have a Text widget and I set a field hint using the method
Text#setMessage(java.lang.String)

This worked like a charm on Windows XP, but on Windows 7 the hint isn't
displayed.
The Text widget is set as not editable.
Example code:

Text field = new Text(parent, SWT.BORDER | SWT.SINGLE);
field.setEditable(false);
field.setMessage("Filter results");

Kindly, elvisd

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Re: Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893219 is a reply to message #893217]

Tue, 03 July 2012 09:17

Elvis Dominguez

Messages: 52
Registered: July 2009
Location: Switzerland

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Sorry, forgot to say that I'm using eclipse Indigo

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:14:44 +0000, Elvis Dominguez wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a Text widget and I set a field hint using the method
> Text#setMessage(java.lang.String)
>
> This worked like a charm on Windows XP, but on Windows 7 the hint isn't
> displayed.
> The Text widget is set as not editable.
> Example code:
>
> Text field = new Text(parent, SWT.BORDER | SWT.SINGLE);
> field.setEditable(false);
> field.setMessage("Filter results");
>
> Kindly, elvisd

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Re: Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893236 is a reply to message #893219]

Tue, 03 July 2012 10:05

Jan Krakora

Messages: 477
Registered: December 2009
Location: Prague

Senior Member

Hi,

I think it's expected behavior. If you can't edit the text, then why it should give you a hint?

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Re: Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893266 is a reply to message #893236]

Tue, 03 July 2012 12:20

Elvis Dominguez

Messages: 52
Registered: July 2009
Location: Switzerland

Member

You are true, but the Text can become editable after some status change,
thus could be ok to display some hint even if not editable.

If is a expected behavior it's ok for me. But for the same SWT version
you have different behavior. In Linux and Windows XP the hint is
displayed, in W7 not.

Is maybe controlled by the OS?

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:05:56 +0200, Jan Krakora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think it's expected behavior. If you can't edit the text, then why it
> should give you a hint?

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Re: Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893275 is a reply to message #893266]

Tue, 03 July 2012 12:49

Jan Krakora

Messages: 477
Registered: December 2009
Location: Prague

Senior Member

Yes, I think its controlled by the OS.

You could create a bug on the eclipse bugzilla for this. The SWT guys then give us the final answer.

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Re: Text hint support on Windows 7 [message #893331 is a reply to message #893275]

Tue, 03 July 2012 14:53

Elvis Dominguez

Messages: 52
Registered: July 2009
Location: Switzerland

Member

Hi Jan,

thank you for your messages.
I've opened a bug [1] about this issue.

Kindly, elvisd

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=384175

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:49:04 +0200, Jan Krakora wrote:

> Yes, I think its controlled by the OS.
>
> You could create a bug on the eclipse bugzilla for this. The SWT guys
> then give us the final answer.

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