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The contents of the dialog windows is to wide to be fully shown inside the windows although they already come up with their maximum width. Reducing the width of the window doesn't effect the components, even more of them vanishes. For example in the "Java/Code Style/Code Templates" and "Java/Code Style/Organize Imports" branches the right hand side buttons are so far on the right and so wide that they reach out of the window and the text on them can't be read any more. Often they don't even show any contents until I resize the window. Also the other dialogs are affected, e.g. the "Confirm Exit" dialog. I'm using Eclipse 3.0.1 with Java 1.5, but the behavoir was also the same with Eclipse 3.0 and Java 1.4. Even a fresh installation doesn't correct this behavoir.
Created attachment 16627 [details] Preferrences dialog "Java/Code Style/Code Templates" dialog "Java/Code Style/Code Templates" with components paasing beyond rigth side
Created attachment 16628 [details] Empty Preferrences dialog "Java/Code Style/Code Templates"
Created attachment 16629 [details] Dialog "Confirm Exit"
As you can see I'm using a different desktop theme called iTunes. As I was making the screenshots it came into my mind that this could be the cause for the problems. I changed the theme to the standard one and now the problems are gone. As a result I'm going to lower the severity of this bug and modify the bug-summary.
*** Bug 83883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As an answer on the question if this issue is Theme-dependant from a user having this problem: "As I thought and as you'll be able to see it on the picture, I get exactly the same issue when using no theme at all. But it doesn't surprise me as I have tested it on several workstations with different resolutions, OS and themes and the problem only occurs on unusual ratio resolutions." Ben
I'm using a screen resolution of 1280x960. But I don't think that the problem is connected with that. In sun's java forum I found somebody having the same problem (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=575952&tstart=0 I'm fisher73). And the thing we all have in common (including Benjamin Pasero) is we're all using a MacOSX theme. But in contrast to Benjamin I'm using StyleXP to a apply it. When I switch to a theme that comes with WinXP the problem is gone. The reason that it doesn't help Benjamin may also be connected with the fact that he doesn't seem to use StyleXP but an other way. But I'm pretty sure that the cause for the problem is the theme.
Created attachment 17553 [details] That's the MacOSX theme I'm using.
*** Bug 86146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 86146 includes a link to a theme that can reproduce this problem.
It's not about "MacOS X" themes, because they're not Mac themes to start with -- just MS Visual Styles mimicing some Mac themes. Anyway, I've been testing lots of themes available from www.customize.org, and can't find a pattern on what themes exhibit this defect, and what themes does not. Maybe inspecting two such themes can reveal something. Bug 86146 contains a link to a theme that reproduces the bug. "Milk", available for download at http://www.customize.org/view/22696 doesn't show this problem (and it's also port from a OSX theme)
I received a message from a user that has exactly the same problems: Some dialogs span the entire screen-width. I asked, he is not using any theme and running a resolution of 1280x1024. Ben
Commenting my last comment by reply of the user: "I used Flyakite OS X awhile back, and I think there might be some remniants left that could have affected things." Flyakite is a Mac OS X Theme. See http://osx.portraitofakite.com/index.php. Ben
This bug is quite old...are you guys still seeing this problem? cc'ing Steve in case he's heard of any layout problems involving certain windows resolutions/themes.
Not really. Eclipse does a bunch of measuring using values queried from the font. It's possible that it is returning something too big. Does the problem happen when you run the ControlExample? http://www.eclipse.org/swt/examples.php
Benjamin or Hapag - can you let me know if you still see the problem and if the ControlExample (linked by Steve in comment #15) exhibits the problem. That will help us figure out if it's SWT or JFace. I will investigate for 3.4 if the problem is still around...
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
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.
