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In the platform (File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc.) the status bar gives details for the highlighted menuitem. In Eclipse, nothing happens, despite IAction defining getDescription(). This also works generally for those applications' popup menus, but it's slightly less expected IMHO.
The following snippet shows a technique for tracking the highlighed menuitem: public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display(); final Shell shell = new Shell(display); final Text status = new Text(shell, SWT.READ_ONLY | SWT.BORDER); status.setText("status"); shell.addControlListener(new ControlAdapter() { public void controlResized(ControlEvent e) { Rectangle client = shell.getClientArea(); client.y += client.height; client.height = status.computeSize(-1,-1).y; client.y -= client.height; status.setBounds(client); } }); Listener StatusListener = new Listener() { public void handleEvent(Event event) { if (event.type == SWT.Arm){ MenuItem item = (MenuItem)event.widget; status.setText("Long Descriptiong For: " + item.getText()); } else if (event.type == SWT.Hide) status.setText(""); } }; Menu bar = new Menu(shell, SWT.BAR); shell.setMenuBar(bar); MenuItem fileItem = new MenuItem(bar, SWT.CASCADE); fileItem.setText("File"); Menu submenu = new Menu(shell, SWT.DROP_DOWN); submenu.addListener(SWT.Hide, StatusListener); fileItem.setMenu(submenu); MenuItem item; item= new MenuItem(submenu, SWT.PUSH); item.setText("Open"); item.addListener(SWT.Arm, StatusListener); item= new MenuItem(submenu, SWT.PUSH); item.setText("Exit"); item.addListener(SWT.Arm, StatusListener); shell.setSize(200, 200); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } }
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