Bug 270743

Summary:	Dialog location should be modifiable
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Christopher Deckers <chrriis>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Steve Northover <steve_northover>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse.felipe, steve_northover
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Christopher Deckers

2009-04-01 06:44:38 EDT

Sometimes it is desirable that a dialog appears at a particular location, and I have not found any such API.

There are 2 scenarios:
1. center around a given location.
2. With its top left corner at a particular location, provided we have a way to know the size of the dialog.

I guess the real size of a dialog is only known when the dialog is shown and depends on some settings that may be set before calling the various open() methods.
I thus suggest the possibility to set a location strategy on the dialog:
Dialog.setLocationStrategy(DialogLocationStrategy);
where DialogLocationStrategy is an interface with a method:
Point getLocation(Rectangle defaultBounds);
This method would be invoked by that dialog just befor actually showing, to adjust its location.

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2009-04-03 16:55:53 EDT

Win32 doesn't provide API to set the location for its dialogs.

Steve to determine if it is possible to implement our own set location function using a window hook or some other technique.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:05:59 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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