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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 1138

Composite with label aligned left and buttons right

I work on an Eclipse plug-in and at a moment in time a pop-up is shown. Inside the pop-up dialog box, I want to create an area where I have a label on the left and two buttons alligned right.

public void createBottom(Composite parent) {
    Composite composite = new Composite(parent, SWT.FILL | SWT.WRAP | SWT.BORDER);
    GridData gridData = new GridData(GridData.FILL, GridData.FILL, true, false);
    composite.setLayoutData(gridData);
    composite.setLayout(new GridLayout(3, false));

    addLabel(composite);
    addButton1(composite);
    addButton2(composite);
}

Currently the result looks like this:
this

While I'm expecting something more like this:
enter image description here

How can I possibly align the Label on the left and the two buttons on the right?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1510

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

First SWT.FILL and SWT.WRAP are not valid styles for Composite. The Javadoc for the control specifies which styles you can use.

Use something like:

Composite composite = new Composite(parent, SWT.BORDER);
GridData gridData = new GridData(GridData.FILL, GridData.FILL, true, false);
composite.setLayoutData(gridData);
composite.setLayout(new GridLayout(3, false));

Label label = new Label(composite, SWT.BEGINNING);
label.setText("Test");
label.setLayoutData(new GridData(SWT.FILL, SWT.CENTER, true, false));

Button but1 = new Button(composite, SWT.PUSH);
but1.setText("OK");
but1.setLayoutData(new GridData(SWT.END, SWT.CENTER, false, false));

Button but2 = new Button(composite, SWT.PUSH);
but2.setText("Close");
but2.setLayoutData(new GridData(SWT.END, SWT.CENTER, false, false));

The layout data for the label grabs the extra space in the composite, and the buttons have end alignment.

Upvotes: 2

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