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How do I get a menu item to refresh? [message #777183]

Mon, 09 January 2012 20:37

Eclipse User

I have an ArmListener on a menu item so I can update the menu item text (or it's enabled state) when it's about to be shown.
The problem is that it displays with it's "old" text/state - until the mouse rolls over it. THEN it updates to the state/text I set.

So, how do I get it to immediately update?

Re: How do I get a menu item to refresh? [message #777409 is a reply to message #777183]

Tue, 10 January 2012 07:51

Eclipse User

SWT.Arm is fired on the menu item when the mouse rolls over it. Sounds like that it what it is doing, just not what you want?

The containing Menu will get an SWT.Show even just before it opens, and that's what code like the MenuManager uses to update its contained MenuItems just before a menu appears. Is that what you want?

PW

Re: How do I get a menu item to refresh? [message #777436 is a reply to message #777409]

Tue, 10 January 2012 09:08

Eclipse User

Very likely! Thanks.
None of the examples I found showed that, and the javadocs tend to be rather terse.

Re: How do I get a menu item to refresh? [message #777459 is a reply to message #777436]

Tue, 10 January 2012 09:47

Eclipse User

For a similar example see
http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet73.java
..

Grant

On 1/10/2012 9:08 AM, Missing name Mising name wrote:
> Very likely! Thanks.
> None of the examples I found showed that, and the javadocs tend to be
> rather terse.
>

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