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Bug 340699

Summary: Need possibility to set the disabled icon on Buttons
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Daniel Migowski <dmigowski>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.5.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Daniel Migowski CLA 2011-03-22 15:27:02 EDT 
Hi,

I have an application with a lot of buttons, many of them very small with icons on them, and often many of them are disabled.

Here comes the problem: Each diabled button takes my image (the same nearly every time), and renders a disabled version of the image, over and over again. Completely useless. I would love to be able to set the disabled image for myself, so I can reuse these images across my app.

Advantage 1: I believe my own disabled images will look better that the ones SWT creates by just using a threshold on each pixel and rendering it transparent or opaque. 

Advantage 2: Each disable button image has to send through RDP connections when using the app. If I reuse the images, only the handle has to send through RDP. I know this is fine tuning, but why shouldn't I be able to do this? 

If disabled images are not supported on a platform, just stick with your current approach there, and note it in the docs (Hey, some Style bits are hints, too), but for everyone else this would be a huge win!

Thank you very much for your time,
Daniel Migowski
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-08 04:40:50 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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