[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Adding widgets to a composite after crea

[Michal Dobisek <Michal.Dobisek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

your approach is perfectly fine - you can add or remove (by disposing 
them) children to a composite at any time - exactly as you did.

The possible reason, why it did not seem to work for you is that you 
didn't call

storedParent.layout();

without this, the children are there, but no one takes care to 
position/draw them.

Michal

> At the moment I have tried what I thought was the most obvious path, 
> which is to store off the parent passed to 'createPartControl' then just 
> use it from the actions like you would normally do during creation (new 
> Label(storedParent, SWT...). But obviously that does not work or I 
> wouldn't have to ask?