[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: widget's layout exceeds client area, ho

[Barrie Treloar <baerrach@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Merks wrote:
> Barrie,
>
> Did you use layout data on the children to control things like their 
> minimum width or their stretchiness?

No.

I'm only adding a single child to the shell, a Composite which contains 
all the other controls.

I'm trying to re-surface a gui screen outside of RCP.

In RCP the child components are constrained to fit within the parent's 
bounds.

But in a standalone SWT shell the single child appears to not respect 
the available space and allows it's children to be laid out outside of 
its bounds.

I can try adding layout data to the single child, but I'm not sure how 
that will fix things.

Thanks.