Bug 290845 - [Widgets] Scale widget does not support TBS_TOP, TBS_BOTTOM, TBS_LEFT or TBS_RIGHT styles
Summary: [Widgets] Scale widget does not support TBS_TOP, TBS_BOTTOM, TBS_LEFT or TBS_...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2009-09-29 16:30 EDT by Chris Fairhall CLA
Modified: 2017-07-14 07:22 EDT (History)
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Description Chris Fairhall CLA 2009-09-29 16:30:41 EDT 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: I20090611-1540

The widgetStyle method of Scale has a hard coded style of TBS_BOTH. There is no provision to apply addition styles.

A suggestion would be to allow SWT.TOP SWT.BOTTOM SWT.LEFT or SWT.RIGHT to be passed to the Scale constructor. An absense of any of these styles would imply the default of TBS_BOTH. therefore not impacting any legacy code.

eg:
new Scale(parent, SWT.HORIZONTAL | SWT.BOTTOM);

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create widget.
Comment 1 Chris Fairhall CLA 2009-09-29 16:32:27 EDT 
SWT version 3.550
Comment 2 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2009-09-29 16:59:18 EDT 
Do other platforms offers similar support ?

I'm afraid this is available on win32 only.
Comment 3 Chris Fairhall CLA 2009-09-29 18:26:48 EDT 
Does that mean supporting additional platform specific styles is out of the question?

There is no functional change in the different styles, the control just renders isself differently.
Comment 4 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2009-09-30 12:10:38 EDT 
SWT is a multi platform toolkit, adding a feature that can only be supported on one platform is not very interesting for us.

That said, the feature can still be added as a hint.


We should check gtk/carbon/cocoa API, maybe it is possible they offer similar support.