Java SWT Spinner with text inside?

Question

I have JAVA SWT/RCP application (Equinox OSGi), I am just creating Wizard which should look like one the picture:

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The problem I just caught that standard SWT class Spinner, does not offer this kind of option to have some text inside of Spinner. I was doing some googling but I could not find any reasonable solution for this.

Spinner (with text) like described on my picture, is possible to do with Swing, but I cannot use Swing => SWT RCP (Equinox OSGi platform).

I even looked into SWT Spinner class source but its not very clear.

Can anybody help please?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '13 at 17:59

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I would suggest you to implement custom widget. If you look at Spinner, it is also a Composite. you could do the same, with a Text widget and up arrow Button and down arrow Button.

answered Mar 26 '13 at 17:59

sambi reddy

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It is not so simple, because those widgets are calling OS implementation... I looked into the code and its not very simple way. – To Kra Apr 22 '13 at 12:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 16:54

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You could use an SWT Combo widget to simulate a Swing Spinner.

Here's some example code.

private String[] items = { "5 min", "3 min", "1 min" };

Combo readOnlyCombo = new Combo(shell, SWT.DROP_DOWN | SWT.READ_ONLY);
readOnlyCombo.setItems(items);

answered Mar 25 '13 at 16:54

Gilbert Le Blanc

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This is not a good solution, if there are 60 or more records :( – To Kra Mar 25 '13 at 17:48

Java SWT Spinner with text inside?

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