[news.eclipse.commercial] Re: Displaying custom property in SWT Designer

["Eric Clayberg" <clayberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Viswanathan" <viswanathan_s@xxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:8e2f936ebb1b0fb0083215d7dcfb957a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am in the assignment of creating a custom control using custom composite 
> feature in the SWT designer.
>
> I need to display a string property in the Property grid for which the 
> value could be any from a set of values that are to be determined at 
> runtime from the XML Schema.
>
> If it could have been determined already I would prefer associating them 
> using a Enum variable so that it display the list of items in a combo 
> control in the Propery grid against my property.
>
> Since the list of values are undetermined at design time how do I proceed 
> with this? Is there anything that can do for getting the list of values in 
> the property grid for my property.

See the following SWT Designer forum discussion threads and sample 
projects...

Enumerated property in custom SWT composite
http://www.instantiations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=700

Properties for custom controls
http://www.instantiations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=756

Support for enums
http://www.instantiations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=769

Sample code:

http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro/files/enum_example.zip

http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro/files/custom-swt-controls-test.zip

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/

Author: "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins"
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