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Drawing a border around a Combo [message #640332]

Sat, 20 November 2010 13:39

Eclipse User

Hi,

I would like to draw a border around a Combo control. Here is my code

	final Combo combo = new Combo(parent, SWT.DROP_DOWN);
	combo.add("car");
	combo.add("boat");
	combo.add("ship");
	combo.addPaintListener(new PaintListener() {

		@Override
		public void paintControl(final PaintEvent e) {
			final Rectangle bounds = combo.getBounds();
			e.gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
			e.gc.setForeground(Display.getDefault().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED));
			e.gc.drawRectangle(0, 0, bounds.width - 1, bounds.height - 1);
		}
	});

but unfortunately it draws two borders as you can see on the picture below

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1125/combotl.png

Can you tell me why? I would like to have only one border around the combo.

[Updated on: Sat, 20 November 2010 13:40] by Moderator

Re: Drawing a border around a Combo [message #641105 is a reply to message #640332]

Wed, 24 November 2010 04:34

Eclipse User

Nobody knows??

Re: Drawing a border around a Combo [message #641218 is a reply to message #641105]

Wed, 24 November 2010 09:38

Eclipse User

This looks like a bug, I don't see why the lines you've pasted would result
in multiple borders being drawn.

The easiest workaround you can try is to give the Combo an additional
Composite parent and draw the border on it. The following snippet
demonstrates this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setBounds(200, 200, 200, 200);
shell.setLayout(new GridLayout());
final Composite composite = new Composite(shell, SWT.NONE);
GridLayout layout = new GridLayout();
layout.marginWidth = layout.marginHeight = 1;
composite.setLayout(layout);
composite.addPaintListener(new PaintListener() {
public void paintControl(final PaintEvent e) {
Rectangle bounds = composite.getBounds();
e.gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
e.gc.setForeground(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED));
e.gc.drawRectangle(0, 0, bounds.width - 1, bounds.height - 1);
}
});
final Combo combo = new Combo(composite, SWT.NONE);
combo.add("car");
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
}
display.dispose();
}

Grant

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