[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT - Looks not like it should... or doe

[ivan.markov@xxxxxxxxx (Ivan Markov)]

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#xpthemes

Stefan Serafin wrote:

> Hi!

> I use SWT and Linux (GTK). Now, I run my developed application under Windows
XP.
> Well, I have read a lot about Skins/Themes and SWT in this newsgroup. So I
> figured out, that a SWT Application looks always like any other
> application depended on the currently used
> windows theme.

> But why do I have differences like them:

> 1.) My Text components aren\'t 3D. They are always white boxes
> (rectangles) without any borders.

> 2.) My Button components won\'t get highlighted, while I put the mouse
> cursor over them

> 3.) Same problem with TabItems.

> 4.) When I set a Text component not editable it has the same effect like
> setting it invisible.

> 5.) The edges of the borders of my titled groups are squared and not
> round...

> My reference was the dialog: \"Display Properties\". Why is the look like
> it looks? Can I change it? It seems, that the only \"components\" that use
> the XP-Style are the Titlebar and Scrollbars. Changing the system
> fontsize effects the SWT Components too.

> Well, can you help me, espacially with the problem discribed in 1.)?

> Kind Regards
> Stefan