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Bug 93809

Summary: Need an extended combo with images and indent
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Damian Biollo <damian_biollo>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: angvoz.dev, bpasero, christof_marti, chs, eclipse.felipe, hariharan.sethuraman, markus.kell.r, mik.kersten, pinnamur, remy.suen, robert.elves, robin, wmitsuda, yymadrian
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 181794, 265379    

Description Damian Biollo CLA 2005-05-05 12:20:29 EDT 
One of the most useful Win32 controls is the extended combo box.
It is like a combo box with 2 additions: each item can have an image and each 
item can be indented. I think (not totally sure) that the indenting increases 
in increments of half the icon size (it might be a fixed # of pixels). 

I can't really see a good cross-platform way to implement this with SWT. The 
Combo class just shows strings. On the newsgroup, people have recommend to use 
a table as the drop down; however, one critical function (setImageIndent) is 
now deprecated, so I'm not sure how to set the indenting. Using a tree as a 
the drop area would seem to be inappropriate as trees behave differently from 
combo box wrt expand/collapse and selection.

Anyway, it seems like a few people are going to be custom implementing this 
control anyway, but I think this belongs in the SWT layer. Is there any chance 
we can get an ExtendedCombo class before Eclipse 3.1 is complete?
Comment 1 Steve Northover CLA 2005-05-06 08:29:38 EDT 
There is no chance before 3.1.  We are API frozen.
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2006-01-18 06:15:10 EST 
See also bug 4510 (requests the same for CCombo).
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2007-08-15 08:56:34 EDT 
Any chance that this will be considered for 3.4?
Comment 4 Steve Northover CLA 2008-06-03 15:02:54 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 28611 ***
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 2009-12-14 11:58:55 EST 
Reopening, this is not a dup and has dependencies.
Comment 6 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-27 07:04:37 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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