How to assign disabled state icon?

[ryan_dunn]

The Eclipse UI Guidelines (http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines) suggest creating disabled states for icons (Guideline 2.5). How do I assign a disabled state icon to a button, image hyperlink, or any other control?

Thanks,
Ryan

[Eric Clayberg]

When you disable the widget, change its icon as well.

[ryan_dunn]

Ok, that's what I figured. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something. It would be nice if widgets had a disabledImage property that it would use on it's own. I guess if I need it that bad, I can just create a custom widget.

[Eric Clayberg]

If that property existed, it would already show up in SWT Designer.

You should make that suggestion on the Eclipse SWT newsgroup.

Creating your own custom subclass would be very easy as well.

[ryan_dunn]

After looking at it a bit more, I think what I ultimately want to do is have a button that is linked to an Action or a Command. Actions have a disabled image discriptor, so I'm not sure how they manage the enabled state of the button. It seems when you setEnabled to false, it always applies a gray filter to your icon. Any tips on using Actions or Commands in a forms API based editor?

[ryan_dunn]

If that property existed, it would already show up in SWT Designer.

You should make that suggestion on the Eclipse SWT newsgroup.

Creating your own custom subclass would be very easy as well.

It looks like IBM has one already, an SButton. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... utton.html

[Eric Clayberg]

Very good!