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Min size of a component? layout question [message #556705] Thu, 02 September 2010 11:56 Go to next message
cifroes is currently offline cifroesFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Hi,

I have a resizable window with 2 columns. the first column is a list of charts to display and the 2nd column contains the charts.

I want that, when only 1 chart is selected it fills all the vertical space for the 2nd column, when there 2 charts they take up half the space, and so on.

I already can do that but my problem is that I also want the charts to not be smaller than 200px. I want to add a scrolled composite to the 2nd column and then specify that I want my charts to not be smaller than 200px.

But I don't know how to set the min size of the charts (the chart is a custom Control of mine). Isn't this possible? I see that I can set the size but won't that defeat my original purpose (1 chart takes up all the available space)?


I hope that is clear and I thank for the help Smile
Re: Min size of a component? layout question [message #556912 is a reply to message #556705] Fri, 03 September 2010 07:06 Go to previous message
Lakshmi P ShanmugamFriend
Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India
Senior Member
Hi,

You can use the ScrolledComposite methods, setMinSize , setMinHeight or setMinWidth to do this. You can recompute and reset the minSize based on the number of controls that have to be displayed.

Here is a small example:

public class ScrolledCompositeExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
	final int MIN_HEIGHT = 100;
    Display display = new Display();
    Shell shell = new Shell(display);
    shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
    
    Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
    button.setText("add another button");
    
    final ScrolledComposite sc = new ScrolledComposite(shell, SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL);
    final Composite childComposite = new Composite(sc, SWT.NONE);
    childComposite.setLayout(new FillLayout(SWT.VERTICAL));

    new Button(childComposite, SWT.PUSH | SWT.BORDER).setText("button");
                                        
    sc.setContent(childComposite);
    sc.setMinSize(300, MIN_HEIGHT);
    sc.setExpandHorizontal(true);
    sc.setExpandVertical(true);

    button.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
    	public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
    		new Button(childComposite, SWT.PUSH | SWT.BORDER).setText("button");
    		int height = childComposite.getChildren().length * MIN_HEIGHT;
    		sc.setMinHeight(height);
    		childComposite.layout(false);
    	}
	});
    
    shell.open();
    while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
      if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
        display.sleep();
      }
    }
    display.dispose();
  }
}


Lakshmi P Shanmugam

[Updated on: Fri, 03 September 2010 07:07]

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