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Checked tool bar item appearance [message #327645]

Mon, 28 April 2008 03:23

Eclipse User

I have an IAction added in a tool bar. It has an icon and its text isn't
shown.
Programmatically I call the setChecked(), but its visual appearance
doesn't change. I expect to appear sunken or something similar.

I'll try to change the icon when checked.

Is this normal?
Any workaround?

Thanks for any help.
David

Re: Checked tool bar item appearance [message #327651 is a reply to message #327645]

Mon, 28 April 2008 04:01

Eclipse User

I've studied a little the scroll lock action on the Console view as an
example.
I've observed this:

public class ScrollLockAction extends Action {
public ScrollLockAction(IConsoleView consoleView) {
super(ConsoleMessages.ScrollLockAction_0);
setToolTipText(ConsoleMessages.ScrollLockAction_1);
setHoverImageDescriptor(...);
setDisabledImageDescriptor(...);
setImageDescriptor(...);
boolean checked = fConsoleView.getScrollLock();
setChecked(checked);
}

It uses 3 different icons.
I've tried to set a different hover image, but it is used always instead
of the normal one.

David Perez wrote:

> I have an IAction added in a tool bar. It has an icon and its text isn't
> shown.
> Programmatically I call the setChecked(), but its visual appearance
> doesn't change. I expect to appear sunken or something similar.

> I'll try to change the icon when checked.

> Is this normal?
> Any workaround?

Re: Checked tool bar item appearance [message #327698 is a reply to message #327645]

Tue, 29 April 2008 05:34

Eclipse User

Solved!

1) Use style IAction.AS_CHECK_BOX

2) In my code I did

void run() {
setChecked(!isChecked());
}

With the AS_CHECK_BOX style, I don't need to set the new check state.

David Perez wrote:

> I have an IAction added in a tool bar. It has an icon and its text isn't
> shown.
> Programmatically I call the setChecked(), but its visual appearance
> doesn't change. I expect to appear sunken or something similar.

> I'll try to change the icon when checked.

> Is this normal?
> Any workaround?

> Thanks for any help.
> David

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