Question

In my project I need to create some play,pause,stop buttons in one composite.
For that I created one composite and added these buttons there. Also I have added the images
for each button. But after drawing, it does not look good. I mean images on the buttons does not look good.Clients are not satisfied. Now is it possible to add Images to Label and give some Toggle button actions to the label? I know I can add images to the label. But when I click the label,it does not give button effect..

Answer 1

If you want a custom look for your ‘buttons’ you could use labels with custom images (one for the normal state and one for the “pushed” state. Something like:

final Label stop = new Label(composite, SWT.NONE);
stop.setSize(STOP_IMG.getImageData().width, STOP_IMG.getImageData().height)

stop.setBackgroundImage(STOP_IMG);
stop.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
{
    @Override
    public void mouseUp(MouseEvent e)
    {
        stop.setBackgroundImage(STOP_IMG);              
    }

    @Override
    public void mouseDown(MouseEvent e)
    {
        stop.setBackgroundImage(STOP_DOWN_IMG);
        // DO ACTION
    }           
});

For a nice UI you could also add a MouseTrack listener and have different images for the mouse over states.

Disadvantage of this is you are making it less accessible as it will only respond to mouse events. If you go for this approach you should look at creating your own class that extends MouseAdapter, and takes the label, images and action to invoke in a constructor so you don’t end up with tonnes of very similar anonymous classes.