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Undo on Text widgets [message #466408]

Tue, 10 January 2006 11:51

Guido Kuepper

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi NG,

I'd like to implement custom undo support on SWT Text widgets. I already
thought about handling all possible events, but I think this is to be
considered awful. Also it is necessary to remove OS native undo of the
widget by pressing e.g. CTRL-Z on Windows.

Any Idea?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With best
regards

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Re: Undo on Text widgets [message #466508 is a reply to message #466408]

Tue, 10 January 2006 18:50

Veronika Irvine

Messages: 1272
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Rather than handling all possible events, you should handle the SWT.Modify
event which is sent regardless of what action modified the text in the
widget.

To override the Ctrl-Z behaviour you need to define a Ctrl-Z accelerator.
Accelerators take precedence over the native widget commands. See:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet29.java?rev=HEAD&a mp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Note if you are doing this inside Eclipse, defining an accelerator is not
the way to go - you must define an Action with a keyboard shortcut. Also,
Eclipse has its own Undo mechanism which you should look into.

"Guido K

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Re: Undo on Text widgets [message #466545 is a reply to message #466508]

Wed, 11 January 2006 11:43

Guido Kuepper

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Veronika Irvine schrieb:
> Rather than handling all possible events, you should handle the SWT.Modify
> event which is sent regardless of what action modified the text in the
> widget.
>

Sounds interesting, but when is SWT.Modify fired? I do not like a
behaviour which generates a command on any key stroke. I'm thinking of
somethink like Eclipse editor behaviour which seems to have a timeout to
group some keystrokes in a certain time slot as one command. Does
handling SWT.Modify do this for me or do I have to look at event time
and decide on my own what to do ?

> Also,
> Eclipse has its own Undo mechanism which you should look into.
>
That's exactly the thing which takes too much time at the moment. Could
you please provide a hint where to look?
Sorry, always the same, other project tasks prevent me from looking
deeply into eclipse sources, although I'd like to do this.

Thanks in advance

Guido

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Re: Undo on Text widgets [message #466553 is a reply to message #466545]

Wed, 11 January 2006 15:06

Veronika Irvine

Messages: 1272
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

SWT.Modify is fired on every key stroke - it also is fired for cut or paste
from a menu or accelerator or when the application calls setText().
Basically anything tha tcan modify the text. You would need to add your
timer if that was too frequently.

For information on the Undo mechanism of eclipse, you need to ask in the
eclipse.platform newsgroup. It is not an SWT feature but an eclipse UI
feature.

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