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Exposing Shell's Styles by default [message #721070]

Wed, 31 August 2011 20:07

Caleb

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

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It seems that right now when I create an SWT application, I can't change any of the shell's styles from the Designer, until I manually change the call to the shell's constructor and pass it some style bits.

I think it would be much more user friendly if the Layout option was exposed without having to modify code to do it.

I see two ways to do it:
1) Pass a few style bits by default so that it always appears (for example, SHELL_TRIM for Application Windows, and DIALOG_TRIM for dialogs).

2) Leave the call to the shell's default consturctor as it is, but still add a Styles item in the property pane.
I'm not sure if the 2nd option is that good, because when Styles item is empty (it shows "[]") the style bits are set to SWT.NONE, and if it will look the same for the default style it may confuse users.

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Re: Exposing Shell's Styles by default [message #721426 is a reply to message #721070]

Thu, 01 September 2011 18:03

Konstantin Scheglov

Messages: 555
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Do you want contribute this feature?

2) You can access current (default) value of style using method

org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.getStyle()

Konstantin Scheglov,
Google, Inc.

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