[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Making a multi-line text control display

[Mike Evans <mike.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use a GridLayout and set the GridData for the text widget with 
appropriate style / attributes; e.g:
GridData.GRAB_VERTICAL
GridData.heightHint
If you really want to be prespcriptive you could probably combine 
Text.getLineCount() with new GC( text ).getFontMetrics().getHeight().

Mike E.

David Beers wrote:

> I've got some multi-line text widgets (created using the FormToolkit) that I
> want to display with a height of more than one line--particularly when there
> is more than one line of text in the widget already.  Is there a way to
> force them to display with a height = the number of lines of text in the
> widget?  Or to an arbitrary height?
>
> David

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