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ka3ak
ka3ak

Reputation: 3191

How to prevent resizing of a SWT combo?

When I call setItems(String[]) the combo box will become wider to fit the length of the new items.

How to make it not resizable no matter how wide the new items are?

I've tried it with ControlListener. I saved the initial size of the combo and set it each time the controlResized() was called. As the result the combo width remains constant but the rest of the UI looks ugly when I resize it. It is a wizard. I'm using GridLayout

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1256

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

If you are using GridLayout for your layout you can specify a widthHint in the layout data for the combo.

GridData data = new GridData(....);

data.widthHint = 100;

combo.setLayoutData(data);

If this is in a dialog you can use convertWidthInCharsToPixels(chars) to specify a width in characters rather than pixel. Dialog also has a static version of this method you can use outside of a dialog.

Upvotes: 3

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