Re: [e4-dev] Themes for Eclipse 4

[Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the table header has 'owner draw'
support on the platforms we support (win32, cocoa and GTK). SWT would have
to expose API for this. I suppose the API would be similar to the  custom
draw API for TableItem/TreeItem (i.e. SWT.PaintItem/SWT.EraseItem/SWT.MesuareItem
events).  SWT would also have to expose the table header as a control
with items: probably Header and HeaderItem.

Here are links to the related documentation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb775300(v=vs.85).aspx
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSTableHeaderView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkTreeViewColumn.html

Menus can probably be 'owner drawn'
on Windows and GTK (need to confirm). I am sure not about mac given it
is an application menu.

Silenio



From:      
 Eric Moffatt/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Date:      
 07/11/2012 10:55 AM
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   Re: [e4-dev]
Themes for Eclipse 4
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Mike, the other area that seems problematic is the menu rendering which
has limited styling abilities at least on some platforms (Windows ?). Perhaps
we should be producing platform-specific themes that use the menu (and
header?) styling where it's supported in the true CSS 'best attempt' manner
? 

Question for SWT: Do either the table header or menu support 'owner draw'
? If so then using this would likely be far less effort that re-implementing
them... 

Onwards, 
Eric

From:	Mike Wilson/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Date:	07/10/2012 03:09 PM
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Well, one possibility would be (for SWT) to hide the standard headers and
"custom draw" an equivalent (if you've styled them). Obviously,
this is a lot of work, but if that's what's standing in the way of the
theming flexibility we want, then we should consider it. I'm not going
to assume, a priori, any restrictions on what is possible. If you need
the capability enter a bug requesting it.

McQ.

Brian
de Alwis ---07/10/2012 02:29:22 PM---On 10-Jul-2012, at 1:32 PM, Roger
Dudler wrote: > For example, how would you achieve to style those

From: Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 07/10/2012 02:29 PM
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On 10-Jul-2012, at 1:32 PM, Roger Dudler wrote:
> For example, how would you achieve to style those headers and grid
lines in the attached Table?

Those are Aqua widgets and can't be changed, just like SWT Button(SWT.PUSH).
The only solution is to change to a different platform, I think!

Brian.

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