[news.eclipse.technology.nebula] Re: Newbie Gallery questions

[Nicolas Richeton <nicolas.richeton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas, 

This is exactly why Gallery supports pluggable item renderers. In your case, you should just create a new ItemRenderer by extending AbstractItemRenderer. 

During redraw, 'draw' is invoked for each item.

public void draw(GC gc, GalleryItem item, int index, int x, int y,
			int width, int height) {

you get an untouched area you can paint as you wish, without resizing.

width and height are the one defined with setItemSize(). If you want to draw labels, just add a little room for them.

(You can even contribute your item renderer to Nebula :) )
--
Nicolas