Bug 322337

Summary:	[Forms] FormText should provide getter for text
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold, mistria
Version:	3.5.2	Keywords:	api
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/112211
Whiteboard:

Description Daniel Krügler

2010-08-11 06:45:55 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

FormText does provide a setter for the text (void setText(String text, boolean parseTags, boolean expandURLs)) and several getters for text selections (getSelectionText(), getSelectedLinkText(), getSelectedLinkHref()). The lack of a getter for the text without considering the selection does make it hard to define a proper data binding for this component. If different answers to this questions exist, different getters could be provided (e.g. getText(), getLinkText(), ..)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2010-11-11 13:38:29 EST

Although this seems useful we don't have any resources available to develop the feature. If someone were to contribute the code we could probably add it to Eclipse.

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2017-11-23 16:41:54 EST

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/112211

Comment 3 Daniel Krügler

2017-11-23 16:43:49 EST

(In reply to Chris Goldthorpe from comment #1)
> Although this seems useful we don't have any resources available to develop
> the feature. If someone were to contribute the code we could probably add it
> to Eclipse.

OK, I finally accepted the challenge and provided a patch suggestion - a review would be very much appreciated!