Hi Dave I'm currently stuck in a problem where I try to have background-color in a cell. The current cell-layout does not stretch the control to use the complete area reserved in the row composite. If you have buttons and texts in a row, the row gehts the max height used by the buttons. texts are currently positioned to the bottom of the row, leaving a space above them. If I set background-color on those text it looks terribly ugly. Stretching those text-controls does not help as the text top-aligned inside the text-control and it looks as ugly as before. I have 2 solutions I tried without success:
1.) gc.fillRectangle() of row-composite (getParent() and use its y + height). I unfortunately never got the expected result. I did not take the time to track the error. 2.) wrap texts in another composite that has a layout that streches the text horizontally and center it vertically. I tracked the problems I have here and I think they could be solved: - arrive-event not triggered: TableRow appends a focusListener to the controls parent (wrapping composite here instead of text). wrapping composite does not trigger focus events -> override addFocusListener on wrapping composite to attach focus-listener to text-control - current column not evaluated correctly in TableRow -> check nested controls - arrow-up & arrow-down navigation not handled natively by composite -> extend keyTraversed handling in InternalComposite (currently it only handles nextRow- and previousRow- Navigation) in general I think solution 2) is lot of changes but could allow nesting any kind of container in table cells. On the other hand the straight-forward approach 1) should be sufficient for now. I do have to admit though that I do not understand yet why my gc-drawings get tackled. I'd appreciate a lot you opinion on this stuff! Greetings André _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
