Re: [albireo-dev] SWT size/layout management

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Looking at what dozens of widgets in Eclipse do, I see tons of explicit
> calls to layout(), like this:
>
>                         if (!searchInProgress)
>                                 goButton.setEnabled(true);
>                         if (searchInProgress)
>                                 goButton.setText(Messages.SearchPart_stop);
>                         else
>                                 goButton.setText(Messages.SearchPart_go);
>                         goButton.getParent().layout();

This particular example (in SearchPart) is not the implementation of a 
widget. The code is in a a user of the button and other widgets.

Have you found examples of an actual widget calling layout() on its parent?