Enhancing the Combo-Widget with Images

Probably you was already faced with the requirement to add small icons to your pulldowns. That looks very nice, but unfortunately there is no common SWT-Widget to realize this.
Fortunately the Eclipse-Framework is OpenSource and we can reprodruce the structure of a SWT-ComboBox. A Combo is not more than a text-field and a small button with an arrow. In addition is a event-handler implemented that shows a Composite as a tooltip with the entries of the “combo-list”. We just have to take this class and change the structure of the content. We don’t want to have a org.eclipse.swt.widgets.List, but a org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table with multiple org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TableItems where you can specify an image…

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Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Editor-Implementation

Developing a Model-Based Editor - TOC

1. Intro
2. Preparation
3. Editor-Inputs
4. Editor-Implementation

TBD

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Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Editor-Inputs

Developing a Model-Based Editor - TOC

1. Intro
2. Preparation
3. Editor-Inputs
4. Editor-Implementation

TBD

4 comments March 3rd, 2006