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On OS X (and I assume others) there are actually two flavors of split pane -- one with a thin divider, and one with a thick divider (that has a grab handle). You can see both in Mail.app on Leopard, the vertical divider is a thin and the horizontal divider is the thick. Currently SashForm only appears to expose the thin divider variant. It would be nice to have an SWT.THICK or similar hint that can be passed to the Sash to specify that we want to have the variant with the handle.
Perhaps we could draw the handle when the width or height is thick enough to see it?
Two things on this -- First, I think there's an OS-specific thickness for the variant with a handle, and this probably differs between OS's (so getting proper cross-platform impls might be tricky) and the second is that I would be nervous about trampling on someone's custom rendering based on the existing behavior. That is, if you have an SWT app already that is drawing a handle yourself, we would trample on that with this change. I'll take a look at GTK and Windows and see is there is any analogue to this concept that might better justify a new setting.
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. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
