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Setting Composite Background color [message #909288]

Thu, 06 September 2012 18:04

Ronald So
Messages: 198
Registered: April 2011

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Hi,

I got stuck trying to set the background color of a composite. This composite (Composite A) lives inside another composite (Composite B).

I have set the background mode of composite A and B to SWT.INHERIT_DEFAULT. Also, I have set the WidgetUtil.CUSTOM_VARIANT of Composite B to a special CSS style and it works fine. Now, I try to set Composite A with another CSS style by using the custom variant, but the desired background color never showed up.

With all the code above and a hard call "setBackground(Color)", I can set the color to the one I want. But with CSS and custom variant, I can't do the same thing.

Is there any material which explains more about the background mode? Or if you can think of anything that I can try to get around the problem?

Thanks.

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Re: Setting Composite Background color [message #909367 is a reply to message #909288]

Thu, 06 September 2012 23:12

Ronald So
Messages: 198
Registered: April 2011

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Seems like setting SWT.INHERIT_NONE on the parent composite does the trick. Thanks.

[Updated on: Thu, 06 September 2012 23:22]

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Re: Setting Composite Background color [message #909479 is a reply to message #909367]

Fri, 07 September 2012 03:51

Ralf Sternberg
Messages: 1247
Registered: July 2009

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Hi Ronald,

I've noticed that the default background color of Composites is
currently set to "transparent" in the default theme, making Composites
inherit their parent's bg color. I've opened a bug [1] for this issue.

I guess this is the same problem you noticed.

Regards, Ralf

[1] 389020: Transparent Composite background color in default theme
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389020

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Re: Setting Composite Background color [message #909701 is a reply to message #909479]

Fri, 07 September 2012 12:05

Ronald So
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Registered: April 2011

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Thanks Ralf. I don't think I am affected by this bug but it's good to know. After setting the parent composite to SWT.INHERIT_NONE, I can set the color of the child composite to the color I defined in my CSS file.

Ronald

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