BorderLayout ignoring composite sizes

[mdeegler]

How do i specify the size of a component in the north, south, west, or east regions?

If i remember correctly, the Swing version would simply take the width or height of the panel and use it where appropriate. For example if i placed a panel in the southern region, the BorderLayout would ignore the width but use the height of the panel

This does not seem to be the case for swing2swt.layout.BorderLayout. It seems to be computing the sizes based off the components that make up the composite in the outer region.

any suggestions?

-matt

[Eric Clayberg]

This does not seem to be the case for swing2swt.layout.BorderLayout. It seems to be computing the sizes based off the components that make up the composite in the outer region.

I haven't look at the code for swing2swt.layout.BorderLayout in any great detail (we didn't write it), but it does appear to dynamically compute the size of each cell based on its contents. I don't know that there is any way around that.

BTW, if you want better control over the size of each cell, you might just want to use the standard SWT GridLayout instead. A three column grid could be used to emulate a BorderLayout very effectively.