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Bug 153937

Summary:	[Preferences] calcNumberOfColumns in org.eclipse.jface.preference.FieldEditorPreferencePage should be protected
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John J. Barton <johnjbarton>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	api, helpwanted
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description John J. Barton

2006-08-15 13:07:37 EDT

FieldEditorPreferencePage formats with GridLayout based on the max number of controls in any field editor added.  Subclasses need to know that max number to adjust say spanning controls to the colunm count.  So the method calcNumberOfColumns should be protected rathter than private.  It just computes a number with no side effects.

Also the javadoc refers to a method "createLayout"; it does not seem to exist.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2007-03-14 15:31:03 EDT

API has frozen for 3.3 but if you want to contribute a patch we could consider it for a later release.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:22:42 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.