Bug 296829

Summary:	Support ability to monitor addition/removal of controls to SWT widget hierarchy
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sandip Chitale <sandipchitale>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Sandip Chitale

2009-12-03 11:37:37 EST

Some times it is necessary to monitor the SWT widget hierarchy for addition and removal of widgets. For example, this can be useful for applying a common theming (colors and fonts) to the Application GUI.

For example, in AWT/Swing one can use recursively added
java.awt.event.ContainerListener or to do the monitorig.

Or even better using:

java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(AWT
EventListener instance, java.awt.event.ContainerEvent.COMPONENT_ADDED);

one can monitor the java.awt.Component (analog of SWT's control) in a central place.

I can imagine support for this on the Display objects.

This facility should support monitoring of Shell creation also. This could be made available as a shellOpened event.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:36:18 EDT

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