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Changing the border on a Group [message #447565]

Tue, 14 December 2004 20:18

Chris Audley

Messages: 41
Registered: July 2009

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I've been working with the Group widget, but I haven't been able to
change to border set around the group regardless of the style settings I
use. What are the differences between SHADOW_ETCHED_IN,
SHADOW_ETCHED_OUT, SHADOW_IN and SHADOW_OUT, the javadoc has nothing to
say on the topic. I've been trying them all and none seems to have any
effect on the appearance of the group.

Windows XP SP2
Eclipse 3.0.1
JDK 1.4.2_05

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Re: Changing the border on a Group [message #447566 is a reply to message #447565]

Tue, 14 December 2004 20:41

Mani Ghamari

Messages: 33
Registered: July 2009

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The docs for
SWT.SHADOW_ETCHED_OUT & SWT.SHADOW_ETCHED_IN say:

"Note that this is a HINT. It is ignored on all platforms except Motif. "

So don't expect them to have any effect on any control on WinXP.

The docs also comment that
SWT.SHADOW_IN & SWT.SHADOW_OUT
are HINTS as well.

Because of the it's multiplatform nature, SWT makes no guarantee about
the availability and effectiveness of hints on specific systems (Thats why
they are called HINTS :) )...

As far as I know, all the SHADOW_* hints are ignored on Win32 implementation
of the Group widget.

regards,

Mani

"Chris Audley" <chris.audley@beacon-cs.com> wrote in message
news:cpnhrd$c2s$1@www.eclipse.org...
> I've been working with the Group widget, but I haven't been able to change
> to border set around the group regardless of the style settings I use.
> What are the differences between SHADOW_ETCHED_IN, SHADOW_ETCHED_OUT,
> SHADOW_IN and SHADOW_OUT, the javadoc has nothing to say on the topic.
> I've been trying them all and none seems to have any effect on the
> appearance of the group.
>
> Windows XP SP2
> Eclipse 3.0.1
> JDK 1.4.2_05

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Re: Changing the border on a Group [message #447569 is a reply to message #447566]

Tue, 14 December 2004 22:20

Chris Audley

Messages: 41
Registered: July 2009

Member

I saw that they were hints and I understand what 'hint' means, but where
the SWT documentation falls down flat is in indicating which platforms
respond to the style (with a few exceptions as you mentioned) and what
they do on platforms that pay attention.

Anyway, thanks for confirming that these do nothing and I wasn't missing
anything.

Cheers
Chris

Mani Ghamari wrote:

> Because of the it's multiplatform nature, SWT makes no guarantee about
> the availability and effectiveness of hints on specific systems (Thats why
> they are called HINTS :) )...
>
> As far as I know, all the SHADOW_* hints are ignored on Win32 implementation
> of the Group widget.
>
> regards,
>
> Mani

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