[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: RowLayout.pack

["Yoway Buorn" <yoway.buorn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you.  That was the description I was looking for.

"Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Here is what the JavaDoc says for 2.1:
>
>  /**
>   * pack specifies whether all controls in the layout take
>   * their preferred size.  If pack is false, all controls will
>   * have the same size which is the size required to accommodate the
>   * largest preferred height and the largest preferred width of all
>   * the controls in the layout.
>   *
>   * The default value is true.
>   */
>
> "Yoway Buorn" <yoway.buorn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > This is kind of a small point, but I was using RowLayout to display a
Text
> > and a Button.  The API says, "pack specifies whether all controls in the
> > layout are forced to be the same size. The default value is true."  I
find
> > that when I set it to false, all the controls become the same size,
while
> > setting pack to true shrinks the controls down to the set sizes.
> >
>
>