[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Equally sized widgets

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try FillLayout instead (set its fillayout.type = FillLayout.VERTICAL).

This will make them all the same size, they will as wide as the widest 
one and as tall as the tallest one.

Marian Schedenig wrote:
> I have several windows/shells which contain several similar components
> aligned vertically in a one-line GridLayout. Currently, the dimensions of
> these widgets depend on their contents (in my case, they're all composites
> containing a table and two buttons, with very different contents for the
> tables). For example, if two tables are empty and the third one contains a
> long list, the first two widgets get so small that the buttons disappear.
>
> What I'd need is a way to assign weights to the widgets so that all three
> widgets always have the same height. (I can't use fixed sizes as I'm
> working on a 1920x1200 GTK system with the targets being Windows systems
> with 800x600 or 1024x768 resolutions).
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> Thx,
> Marian.

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp