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Reordering widgets within composite [message #557909]

Thu, 09 September 2010 11:59

msultakov

Messages: 6
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Hello to everyone! I've got significant experience in Swing-based applications development, and was very surprised when I failed to do such a simple thing as dynamic changing the order of widgets within a composite in SWT.
To be more precise, I've got a composite with GridLayout. Some other widgets can be added, removed or moved up or down inside this composite by a user (i.e. when application is already running). I learned that removing is done via .dispose() method (which looked a bit strange after Swing, but it's OK), but Internet surfing didn't get me any suitable answer about reordering. As far as I understand, I can dispose and recreate components in a desired order each time, but it seems a bit ugly and is very likely to have UI performance impact.
Could you, please, tell me how I can get desired behaviour?
Thanks in advance!

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Re: Reordering widgets within composite [message #558159 is a reply to message #557909]

Fri, 10 September 2010 11:32

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi,

You can redorder the controls (i.e, change the drawing order) using the methods Control.moveAbove and Control.moveBelow. Please see this snippet for an example --> Snippet

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

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