Question

I’m building a welcome editor for my eclipse rcp application. I want to have two ScrolledComposites sit side by side with a label above each.

Label 1             Label 2

Scrollable 1        Scrollable 2

Now I’m stuck in how to box.

This seems right but now I can’t get the layouts and listeners right.

• Composite A
  • Composite A1
    • Label 1
    • Scrollable S1
  • Composite A2
    • Label 2
    • Scrollable S2

A1 should set the min Size of Scrollable S1 right? But who sets the size of S1 so that it fills the excess space? The examples I found didn’t work right.

BTW putting everything in a GridLayout didn’t work either since I couldn’t get the cell size.

Answer 1

BTW putting everything in a GridLayout didn’t work either since I couldn’t get the cell size.

Why would you need the cell size? Just set GridLayoutdata for S1 and S2 to fill the cell. It’s simplest to use GridLayoutFactory:

import org.eclipse.jface.layout.GridLayoutFactory;

...
GridLayoutFactory.fillDefaults().applyTo(s1);
GridLayoutFactory.fillDefaults().applyTo(s2);
...

UPDATE: See examples at http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/swt/custom/ScrolledComposite.html

Let’s say content of s1 is a Composite c1. Then you use s1.setMinSize(c1.computeSize(SWT.DEFAULT, SWT.DEFAULT)). Size of A1 is irrelevant.