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StyledText with Image? [message #757231]

Thu, 17 November 2011 09:23

Thomas Singer

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Registered: July 2009

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We want to show some information in following form

+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Some text fjsdk fsdk fsdj fsd f sdfjs df  +------------+|
| Some text f sdk sdjf jfks dfsd fksjf ksl  |            ||
| Some text fjskdj fsdf sdfj sdfjs dlfs  f  |   image    ||
| Some text fkdsj fej rek dfjds fsdkf sd    |            ||
| Some text trejk jfdkvjfdivrvrm  kfgd      |            ||
| Some text rejkfvdsmvkddmvfd  kdjff dsf s  +------------+|
| Some text fjsdkjf sdkfj er ewjcekrjemwrwer fdsfdsfsdfew |
| Some safd sjfk jwejfijfie m cxdmcsdj ekdfkd  dkf dsjf   |
+---------------------------------------------------------+

Is it possible to show the image always at the right side and let the text flow around it? We don't want to use a Browser component for different reasons.

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #757254 is a reply to message #757231]

Thu, 17 November 2011 11:05

Thomas Singer

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Belonging question: how to provide table-like right-aligned labels for left-aligned text:

+---------------------+
| First Name: Foo     |
|  Last Name: Bar     |
|     Street: Bazz    |
+---------------------+

Thanks in advance.

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #757785 is a reply to message #757254]

Mon, 21 November 2011 16:33

Felipe Heidrich

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Sorry Thomas, StyledText does not support the two scenarios you described.

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #757790 is a reply to message #757785]

Mon, 21 November 2011 17:10

Thomas Singer

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Thanks for answering. The second question (label: value) is more important for us: we currently use a ScrolledComposite with Label and read-only input fields which has some flaws (hence we search an alternative). Do you have an idea what else we could use instead (beside using Browser and generate HTML)? Thanks in advance.

Tom

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #759098 is a reply to message #757790]

Sat, 26 November 2011 11:13

andzsinszan

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Registered: August 2011

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I am just curious what is your main reason for tying to avoid the browser widget? It seems to be a perfect match for your first scenario.
For the second, have you thought about tables? It's scrolled by default, aligned, and can be set editable.

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #759425 is a reply to message #759098]

Mon, 28 November 2011 16:06

Thomas Singer

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andzsinszan wrote on Sat, 26 November 2011 06:13

I am just curious what is your main reason for tying to avoid the browser widget? It seems to be a perfect match for your first scenario.

Following reasons come to my mind:
- we want to exactly define which font should be used to provide a consistent GUI
- we've already god bug-reports where the browser did not work on Linux
- we prefer lower-level controls over heavy-weight ones (memory usage, flexibility)

Tom

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Re: StyledText with Image? [message #760038 is a reply to message #759425]

Thu, 01 December 2011 04:31

andzsinszan

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Thanks.
You convinced me with the fonts.

Probably I'm not the best person here to give advice, but in my experience text renderer + canvas can work pretty nicely.
Provided the text doesn't need to be selected/copy-pasted etc.

gbr

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