[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Where are getName() and setName(...) ?

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes that's the appropiate thing to restore user data in SWT. Use 
setData(String,Object) because setData() is sometimes used by frameworks 
like JFace to restore information.

Tom

Hans Schwaebli schrieb:
> In Swing you can set a name for each GUI component and then get it. This 
> is valuable for automated GUI tests.
>
> But what is the equivalent in SWT? I didn't find a name attribute there.
>
> Maybe the getData(...) and setData(...) methods of the Widget class 
> could be used for this? Or is this not the proper way?


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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