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How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #490272]

Thu, 08 October 2009 07:27

H.ORTIZ

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I want to allow the users to resize a Shell but I want that the ratio between width and height remains the same.
I tried with a ControlListener but it didn't work.
Here is my snippet:

import org.eclipse.swt.events.ControlAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ControlEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class SizedShell {

private Shell shell;
private int width = 600;
private double ratio = 0.5;

public static void main (String[] args) {

SizedShell sizedShell = new SizedShell();
sizedShell.init();

}

private void init() {
Display display = new Display();
shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setText("Shell");
shell.setSize(width, (int)(ratio*width));

shell.addControlListener(new ControlAdapter() {
public void controlResized(ControlEvent event) {
shell.setSize(shell.getBounds().width, (int)(ratio*shell.getBounds().width));
shell.layout(true, true);
}
});

shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed ()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch ()) {
display.sleep ();
}
}
display.dispose ();
}
}

Thanks for your help,
Hélène

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Re: How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #490949 is a reply to message #490272]

Mon, 12 October 2009 14:58

H.ORTIZ

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Oups I've just realised that my snippet turns into an infinite loop...
Sorry !

Someone has an idea ?

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Re: How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #491251 is a reply to message #490949]

Tue, 13 October 2009 19:18

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi H

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Re: How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #491570 is a reply to message #491251]

Thu, 15 October 2009 06:59

H.ORTIZ

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Grant it seems like there was a problem with your post...

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Re: How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #491606 is a reply to message #491570]

Thu, 15 October 2009 08:44

Daniel KrÃ¼gler

Messages: 853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

H.ORTIZ wrote:
> Grant it seems like there was a problem with your post...

Which one? I could perfectly open the link and test the snippet.

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

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Re: How to keep the same ratio between width and height of a Shell when it is resized ? [message #491691 is a reply to message #491570]

Thu, 15 October 2009 13:37

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

It looks like the Eclipse Community Forum page got confused by the accented
characters in your name, though it had no problem with them in your original
post. I'll log a report for this problem. My response is re-pasted
below...

Your snippet works for me on Windows 2000 and OSX but has problems
elsewhere:

- Any Windows release that shows window content during dragging, so XP and
later: shell visual size flickers between the size that your snippet sets it
to and the size that the current pointer position indicates it "should be"
- Linux: loops infinitely because the window manager does not guarantee to
give a shell with the EXACT size requested by a setSize() invocation, so the
subsequent setSize() calls with the same dimension are not short-circuited
by the "am-I-already-that-size?" check

So I think your snippet is correct in theory, but is having problems as a
result of some window manager behaviours. Unfortunately these are difficult
to work around in app code because window managers can generally do what
they want, and swt's API in this area is minimal. I've done a couple of
quick experiments without success. Is there any way that your resizing can
be done with a Tracker instead of resizing the actual Shell (for an example
of this see
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet31.java?view=co
[change the Tracker's creation style to SWT.RESIZE])? If so then you can
re-set the Rectangle on each SWT.Resize callback to maintain the desired
ratio. I don't know of another solution to suggest to make this work on all
platforms.

HTH,
Grant

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> Grant it seems like there was a problem with your post...

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