Bug 351935

Summary:

FEATURE - GridLayout - reorder components by GridData

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Ludwig Moser <luke2000>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

luke2000, markus.kell.r, remy.suen

Version:

3.7

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
modyfied GridData to work with index	none
modyfied GridLayout to work with index	none
the Comparator to sort the Array of Components by index	none

Description Ludwig Moser

2011-07-13 05:44:35 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

reordering the components is currently not possible (only excluding them)
ordering the components by an index would be fine.
(i implemented it: files will get attached)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ludwig Moser

2011-07-13 05:45:49 EDT

Created attachment 199555 [details]
modyfied GridData to work with index

Comment 2 Ludwig Moser

2011-07-13 05:46:14 EDT

Created attachment 199556 [details]
modyfied GridLayout to work with index

Comment 3 Ludwig Moser

2011-07-13 05:46:39 EDT

Created attachment 199557 [details]
the Comparator to sort the Array of Components by index

Comment 4 Markus Keller

2011-07-13 06:46:34 EDT

Control#moveAbove/Below(Control) can already be used to reorder the controls.

Setting indexes in GridData is a bit problematic, since there's no guarantee that  indexes are unique. This can be a subtle source of bugs. If anything is really necessary here, then I'd prefer something like Composite#setOrder(Control[]).