Eclipse Community Forums: Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) » How to disable key binding Ctrl+i in StyledText control

Help

Home

Home » Eclipse Projects » Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) » How to disable key binding Ctrl+i in StyledText control

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

How to disable key binding Ctrl+i in StyledText control [message #542486]

Fri, 25 June 2010 05:12

lushiwei lushiwei

Messages: 12
Registered: June 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

I want to trigger the Italic style in StyledText control when user click ctrl+i, but there is an action binding with Ctrl+i by default(tab key).

How to disable it, the following code seems not work well.

StyledText widget = new StyledText(shell, SWT.BORDER);
widget.setText("This is the StyledText widget.");
widget.setKeyBinding(SWT.CTRL | 'i', SWT.NULL);

Thanks.

Report message to a moderator

Re: How to disable key binding Ctrl+i in StyledText control [message #542619 is a reply to message #542486]

Fri, 25 June 2010 13:12

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi,

StyledText doesn't have a default key binding for Ctrl + i. You can verify this by doing widget.getKeyBinding(SWT.CTRL|'i'), it returns 0.
What you are seeing is a feature of the platform which causes the <Ctrl>+i combination to be translated into TAB.
You can add a VerifyKeyListener to the StyledText widget to disable this behavior.

widget.addVerifyKeyListener(new VerifyKeyListener() {
		public void verifyKey(VerifyEvent event) {
			if (event.keyCode == 'i' && event.stateMask == SWT.CTRL){
				event.doit = false;
			}
		}
}

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Report message to a moderator