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brifer
brifer

Reputation: 1

Input form using FormLayout in swt

i am new to swt and im trying to create a layout in a window. Each texfield will have a label to the left of the textfield- however in some cases there may be two textfields per label, and maybe at a later date there will be radio buttons added. Is a formlayout the best way of doing this? It seems to me unnecessarily over-complicated. I dont have windowbuilder or a visual designer utility and am finding the FormAttachment method difficult to handle. Any advice appreciated. I have attached a screenshot of the basic gui design Im trying to create.

Unfortunately im not allowed upload images for the moment, as i a new user. Essentially the structure i am aiming for is like so:

LABEL TEXTBOX
LABEL TEXTBOX TEXTBOX
LABEL TEXTBOX
LABEL TEXTBOX TEXTBOX
LABEL CALENDAR CONTROL
     OK  |  NOK

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1222

Answers (1)

Baz
Baz

Reputation: 36894

Here is a simple example that should explain how to span a widget across multiple columns of a GridLayout:

public class StackOverflow2
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        final Display display = new Display();
        final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        shell.setText("StackOverflow");
        shell.setLayout(new GridLayout(3, false));

        Label firstLabel = new Label(shell, SWT.NONE);
        firstLabel.setText("Label");
        Text firstText   = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        addSpanData(firstText, 2);

        Label secondLabel = new Label(shell, SWT.NONE);
        secondLabel.setText("Label");
        Text secondText   = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        addSpanData(secondText, 1);

        Text thirdText    = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        addSpanData(thirdText, 1);

        Label thirdLabel = new Label(shell, SWT.NONE);
        thirdLabel.setText("Label");

        Text fourthText  = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        addSpanData(fourthText, 2);

        shell.pack();
        shell.open();
        while (!shell.isDisposed())
        {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
        }
        display.dispose();
    }

    private static void addSpanData(Control comp, int span)
    {
        GridData data = new GridData(SWT.FILL, SWT.CENTER, true, false);
        data.horizontalSpan = span;
        comp.setLayoutData(data);
    }
}

This is how it looks:

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Upvotes: 1

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