Description Kay Schröer 2016-03-03 16:14:08 EST

It would be nice if the MenuItem and the ToolItem classes can implement a common interface with some methods like getEnabled/setEnabled, getSelection/setSelection and/or getText/setText so I will be able to f.e. acitivate or deactivate such controls without making any difference:

interface IExample {
  public boolean getEnabled();
  public void setEnabled(boolean value);
  ...
}

class MenuItem implements IExample {
}

class ToolItem implements IExample {
}

IExample item = (IExample) new MenuItem(menuBar, SWT.PUSH);
item.setEnabled(false);

IExample item = (IExample) new ToolItem(toolBar, SWT.PUSH);
item.setEnabled(false);

Another solution would be to refactor these methods to the Item class so I can cast MenuItem and ToolItem to the superclass and then call setEnabled or setSelection etc. on that superclass.