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Transparency in TableItems [message #1690286] Thu, 26 March 2015 10:57 Go to next message
Peter Kullmann is currently offline Peter KullmannFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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SWT supports transparency in many controls which is great. In our application we would like to have table items with a slightly transparent background color. This does not work as far as I can see. Here is a snippet that sets different alpha values on each item - but they all look the same:

package snippets;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.RGBA;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableItem;

public class SnippetTransparency {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final Display display = new Display();
        final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());

        Table table = new Table(shell, SWT.NONE);
        Color[] colors = new Color[256];
        for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
            TableItem item = new TableItem(table, SWT.NONE);
            item.setText("Item " + i);
            colors[i] = new Color(display, new RGBA(255, 0, 0, i));
            item.setBackground(colors[i]);
        }

        shell.setSize(100, 400);
        shell.open();
        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
        }
        for (Color color : colors) {
            color.dispose();
        }
        display.dispose();
    }
}


On macosx and on windows there is no transparency in the table items. Is it generally not possible to make this work or is it just not yet implemented?

Best regards,
Peter
Re: Transparency in TableItems [message #1690639 is a reply to message #1690286] Mon, 30 March 2015 09:47 Go to previous message
Niraj Modi is currently offline Niraj ModiFriend
Messages: 48
Registered: November 2013
Member
Hi Peter,
Thanks for trying this feature. Currently, SWT honors only extreme values for alpha i.e, '0'(transparent) or '255'(opaque).
And setting transparent background color for some controls works on GTK3 only, it fails on other platforms. For e.g. Table, Tree.

Please refer complete documentation of this feature here: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M5/#transparent-bg
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