[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Cannot place widgets in Group using FormLayout

["Zheng Yi" <mantis713@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks
"Jim Azeltine" <jim.azeltine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Zheng Yi wrote:
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> > I am trying to place widgets within a group on a tabbed page.  I am not
sure
> > how to do this because there are no form attachments tha tyou can use to
> > place widgets within a group. All help is appreciated.
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> What I found so far was that you have to place all the widgets first. Once
> you have them placed, you can calculate the needed size (unless it will be
> fixed), and then place the Group. It is kind of backwards as you would
> think that you would need to place the Group first, then the other
> widgets, but if you do this, they end up "behind", and are not visible.
> The widgets do not end up being children of the Group, so the technique
> must be different.
> The problem with this is that as the widgets are not children of the
> Group, so if any resizing takes place, the size of the Group will have to
> be handled. Personally, I feel that this is a flaw not being able to have
> the Group be the parent.
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