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Bug 34547

Summary:

[Dialogs] Blank line in edit dialog

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>

Component:

Assignee:

Stefan Xenos <sxenos>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

minor

Priority:

CC:

dirk_baeumer

Version:

2.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

Macintosh

OS:

Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Mac with no selection	none
Mac with selection error	none
Windows with no selection	none
Windows with selection error	none

Description Alex Blewitt

2003-03-10 18:50:06 EST

A number of edit dialogs on Mac OS X have a blank line (which shows up as
white instead of the dashed grey background) which is where messages get
displayed in the UI.

Examples of these dialogs are in:
Java > Classpath variables> Edit/New
Java > Task Tags > Edit/New

It does not happen with
Plugin development > Source > Source Code Location > Add 
although that also has a similar message box

Comment 1 Erich Gamma

2003-03-11 08:56:37 EST

The blank line is used for status messages.

Are you on RC2?
We have changed the background so that it is SWT background color. Not sure 
that we can make it any better.

Dirk?

Comment 2 Alex Blewitt

2003-03-21 08:46:25 EST

On Mac, the background for this status box is white, as opposed to the 
standard Mac background colour (a kind of stripey-grey). There are dialogs 
with status messages that don't have the white background; the labels that 
show a (shared) project's CVS information have the grey background, so some 
types of SWT label don't have this feature. However, the project properties 
(name, location etc.) do have the white background, but I'd always assumed 
that this was because they could be changed whereas the CVS stuff can't -- or 
is this another example of the bug?

If you've not got a Mac handy to see the glitch, I can attach screenshots ...

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2003-03-21 09:24:45 EST

JDT/UI is setting the background to JFaceColors.getErrorBackground, which is 
conformant to Eclipse UI (the do the same for their dislogs).

Moving to platform for comments.

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2003-03-31 15:07:06 EST

The problem is that we use JFaceColors.getBannerBackground(display) which is
SWT.COLOR_LIST_BACKGROUND. This was by design - it is not meant to be the same
as the background.

Comment 5 Alex Blewitt

2003-04-02 05:25:54 EST

Reopening bug because of differences between Windows and Mac behaviour.

When there is no text, the Windows box shows no indication that there is a 
label present. It is only when something is changed that the background appears.

When there is no text, the Macintosh box draws a background box which is /not/ 
the Mac background.

When text is shown, both Mac and Windows show a diffreent coloured background.

See attachments for differences between Windows and Mac platform.

Comment 6 Alex Blewitt

2003-04-02 05:38:14 EST

Created attachment 4425 [details]
Mac with no selection

Showing Preferences -> Classpath Variables -> Edit dialog
No selection
Note the white line where the label is at the bottom

Comment 7 Alex Blewitt

2003-04-02 05:45:30 EST

Created attachment 4426 [details]
Mac with selection error

Mac with selection error
Background subtly highlights error (though IMHO not in a clear way)
This is similar to the Windows selection

Comment 8 Alex Blewitt

2003-04-02 05:55:51 EST

Created attachment 4427 [details]
Windows with no selection

Windows with no selection

Comment 9 Alex Blewitt

2003-04-02 05:58:30 EST

Created attachment 4428 [details]
Windows with selection error

Windows with selection error
Note the slight grey background, which is similar to the one with the mac
selection error

Comment 10 Andre Weinand

2004-08-11 06:54:08 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71765 ***

Comment 11 Alex Blewitt

2007-01-24 04:48:17 EST

Yeah, dupe.