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Layout woes [message #674531]

Fri, 27 May 2011 09:23

clive.quinn

Messages: 2
Registered: May 2011

Junior Member

Hi,

I am trying to achieve the following using swt in a small dialog.
I want x amount of radio buttons and each radio button has an associated amount of controls.
For example:

(1) RadioButton1 Label Spinner
(2) RadioButton2 Label Spinner Label Spinner
(3) RadioButton3 Many checkboxes(max 31 as in days of month)

Now i have managed to layout this where the RadioButtons are part of a root composite and then the controls are layed out in a new composite on the next line.

Example:
(1) RadioButton1 (Within composite named root with GridLayout(1, false)
Label Spinner (Within subcomposite of root with GridLayout(2, false)
(2) RadioButton2 (Within composite named root with GridLayout(1, false)
Label Spinner Label Spinner
(Within subcomposite of root with GridLayout(4, false)
(3) RadioButton3 (Within composite named root with GridLayout(1, false)
Many checkboxes(max 31 as in days of month)

(Within subcomposite of root with GridLayout(12, false) (So controls wrap)

But i would like to lay this out so that the radio button and associated controls are all on the same line. I obviously want to preserve the radio buttons in the same composite so that i get the radio button selection behaviour.
Can anyone give me any tips as to how i might approach this so that the layout looks nice.

Thanks
Clive

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Re: Layout woes [message #675526 is a reply to message #674531]

Tue, 31 May 2011 18:34

Lakshmi Shanmugam

Messages: 276
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi,

In your example, setting the layout of the root composite to GridLayout(2, false) instead of GridLayout(1, false) should display the radio button and the associated controls in the same line.
Also see --> Eclipse Corner Article on Understanding Layouts
Few example snippets on using GridLayout --> http://eclipse.org/swt/snippets/#gridlayout

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

[Updated on: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:34]

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