| ListSelectionDialog [message #459766] |
Tue, 16 August 2005 01:10  |
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Originally posted by: john.brecht.sri.com
I need to use the ListSelectionDialog, but I can find no documentation
for it. What is the 2nd argument in its constructor meant to be? All
the javadocs say is:
input - the root element to populate this dialog with
Is there some other class I ought to use instead to get a user's
selection from a list of Strings?
thanks!
-john
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| Re: ListSelectionDialog [message #459786 is a reply to message #459767] |
Tue, 16 August 2005 21:09  |
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Originally posted by: john.brecht.sri.com
That documentation is still unclear - "any object at all", "does not
assume any particular interface"... And there are no examples either.
What might I use? A Label? TextField? Combo?
-john
Michael Forster wrote:
> John Brecht wrote:
>
>> I need to use the ListSelectionDialog, but I can find no documentation
>> for it. What is the 2nd argument in its constructor meant to be? All
>> the javadocs say is:
>> input - the root element to populate this dialog with
>
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> You should definitely read the JFace documentation in the Ecplipse help:
> http://help.eclipse.org/help31/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/guide/jface_viewers.htm,
> especially "Viewer architecture".
>
> ... An input element is the main object that the viewer is displaying
> (or editing). From the viewer's point of view, an input element can be
> any object at all. It does not assume any particular interface is
> implemented by the input element. (We'll see why in a moment when we
> look at content providers.) ...
>
> Mike
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| Re: ListSelectionDialog [message #459787 is a reply to message #459786] |
Tue, 16 August 2005 21:51 |
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Originally posted by: sunil_kamath.nohotspammail.com
"John Brecht" <john.brecht@sri.com> wrote in message
news:ddtkm9$afo$1@news.eclipse.org...
> That documentation is still unclear - "any object at all", "does not
> assume any particular interface"... And there are no examples either. What
> might I use? A Label? TextField? Combo?
>
> -john
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Anything you like, as long as your content provider and label provider can
interpret it.
That being said, a SWT widget would be the last thing that would come to
mind.
I would suggest the model object for whatever you wish the user to select.
---
Sunil
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| Re: ListSelectionDialog [message #459788 is a reply to message #459787] |
Tue, 16 August 2005 22:04 |
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Originally posted by: john.brecht.sri.com
The user will select a String from a list of Strings. Are you saying I
should just pass a new empty String?
-john
Sunil Kamath wrote:
> "John Brecht" <john.brecht@sri.com> wrote in message
> news:ddtkm9$afo$1@news.eclipse.org...
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>>That documentation is still unclear - "any object at all", "does not
>>assume any particular interface"... And there are no examples either. What
>>might I use? A Label? TextField? Combo?
>>
>>-john
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> Anything you like, as long as your content provider and label provider can
> interpret it.
> That being said, a SWT widget would be the last thing that would come to
> mind.
> I would suggest the model object for whatever you wish the user to select.
> ---
> Sunil
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| Re: ListSelectionDialog [message #459789 is a reply to message #459788] |
Wed, 17 August 2005 01:00 |
 Michael Forster
Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi,
John Brecht wrote:
> The user will select a String from a list of Strings. Are you saying I
> should just pass a new empty String?
You should pass whatever the list should show. As you want to show a
"list as strings", an easy choice would be to pass a "list of strings":
List<String> oder String[] or whatever object you use to store your
strings.
You would then use the ContentProvider to extract the list of choices
from your input element. For an arrays or lists you can use
ArrayContentProvider and LabelProvider.
A simple example:
new ListSelectionDialog(
window.getShell(),
new String[] { "Choice 1", "Choice 2", "Choice 3" },
new ArrayContentProvider(),
new LabelProvider(),
"Please choose!"
).open();
or
new ListSelectionDialog(
window.getShell(),
Arrays.asList("Choice 1", "Choice 2", "Choice 3"),
new ArrayContentProvider(),
new LabelProvider(),
"Please choose!"
).open();
Mike
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| Re: ListSelectionDialog [message #459819 is a reply to message #459789] |
Wed, 17 August 2005 22:30 |
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Originally posted by: john.brecht.sri.com
Ah, OK, so the "input" is the data itself. I would have thought that
this would be the ContentProvider's job, and the fact that the API calls
this the "root element" (singular) did not make me think it was meant to
be the list of items (plural)...
Is there a good tutorial out there for SWT? The Eclipse documentation is
not terribly readable or useful.
-john
Michael Forster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Brecht wrote:
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>> The user will select a String from a list of Strings. Are you saying I
>> should just pass a new empty String?
>
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> You should pass whatever the list should show. As you want to show a
> "list as strings", an easy choice would be to pass a "list of strings":
> List<String> oder String[] or whatever object you use to store your
> strings.
>
> You would then use the ContentProvider to extract the list of choices
> from your input element. For an arrays or lists you can use
> ArrayContentProvider and LabelProvider.
>
> A simple example:
>
> new ListSelectionDialog(
> window.getShell(),
> new String[] { "Choice 1", "Choice 2", "Choice 3" },
> new ArrayContentProvider(),
> new LabelProvider(),
> "Please choose!"
> ).open();
>
> or
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> new ListSelectionDialog(
> window.getShell(),
> Arrays.asList("Choice 1", "Choice 2", "Choice 3"),
> new ArrayContentProvider(),
> new LabelProvider(),
> "Please choose!"
> ).open();
>
>
>
> Mike
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