Custom FormToolkit

[fleque]

Hi all,

I'm using WindowBuilder Pro Version: 6.5.0 with a subclass of FormToolkit. Works fine so far, all my changes (overridden factory methods) and changes to font and colors are well reflected in the designer. It also supports custom Layout and LayoutData code applied in the factory methods (when not involving other factory methods), very nice!
However, I wonder if I could somehow include methods into the designer palette, that get I've added to the toolkit myself. Actually I'm only looking for one, that is unfortunately missing in the FormToolkit API: createCombo(Composite, int). When added to my custom toolkit and placed to create a Combo, the designer does not recognize it as Combo and displays a Composite-placeholder instead.
Still, using a normal Combo or a subclass will add a call to toolkit.adapt() after creation, so that works fine, it would just be nice to have all font and layout customisation code inside my custom toolkit.

Any hints on this?

Best regards
Alex

[Eric Clayberg]

There isn't anything you can do in the current product, but we are working on a major update that will offer first class factory support, so adding support for custom toolkit factory methods will be trivial.

[fleque]

Thanks Eric,

I'll watch out for new versions...

Best regards
Alex

[Eric Clayberg]

You can read about how it will work here.

Note that this feature is currently available in our eRCP Designer beta.