RE: [platform-swt-dev] SWT 101

[Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx]

Joe, instead of arriving late at the party full of criticisms and design decisions, expecting
everything to work exactly as you would have designed it, then complaining when it doesn't,
why don't you try and educate yourself first?  For example, here's some good documents
that describe widgets and layout:

http://eclipse.org/articles/Understanding%20Layouts/Understanding%20Layouts.htm
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget/Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget.htm

Have you read these?

"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/27/2003 12:29 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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> From: Joe Pluta
>
> Hey, who knows, it may just be that I need some basic SWT 101
> training.
>
> The only way I've found to correct this behavior is to either call
> pack() every time...

Calling Shell.layout() does the same thing as pack().  Specifically, while
it does indeed show the new contents of the label, it shortens the input
field to the size of the entered field.  So maybe my problem is not the
label, but figuring out how to get the Text field not to shorten itself.  My
guess is that some sort of setSize() might do the trick, or using a
GridData, but I can't find anything.

These sorts of behaviors are the ones that are making me a little crazy.
Once I get past them, I'm sure I'll be fine.

Joe

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