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Bug 366681

Summary:	Make Widget.getNameText() protected so subclasses from, e.g., Composite are allowed to override
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Thomas Singer <eclipse>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse.felipe, remy.suen
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Thomas Singer

2011-12-14 05:49:46 EST

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Some subclasses of Widget are supposed for overriding like Composite. For those it makes sense for overriding some methods which usually are package protected.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2011-12-14 20:21:29 EST

Why do you want to overwrite getNameText() ?
couldn't you re-implement toString() instead ?