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Bug 147120 - SWT.FLAT doesn't produce a flat Button on XP
Summary: SWT.FLAT doesn't produce a flat Button on XP
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Steve Northover CLA
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Reported: 2006-06-14 17:19 EDT by Curtis d'Entremont CLA
Modified: 2006-06-15 16:50 EDT (History)
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Description Curtis d'Entremont CLA 2006-06-14 17:19:10 EDT 
3.2 RC7

On XP, try the SWT samples, in the samples view on the Button tab, select SWT.PUSH then select SWT.FLAT. The SWT.FLAT doesn't appear to do anything.

If this is a limitation in XP, you can close but would be good to have it documented somewhere.
Comment 1 Grant Gayed CLA 2006-06-15 14:07:00 EDT 
This is a platform limitation that was previously investigated.

There is not currently a place where platform differences like this are listed, but these are being accumulated for a future document/article, so this has been noted.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69769 ***
Comment 2 Grant Gayed CLA 2006-06-15 14:08:29 EDT 
Actually, looking again, this isn't quite the same as the duplicate report.  Reopening.
Comment 3 Grant Gayed CLA 2006-06-15 14:11:01 EDT 
SN, does XP do this some other way?  Or not?
Comment 4 Eric Zimmerman CLA 2006-06-15 14:16:41 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a platform limitation that was previously investigated.
> 
> There is not currently a place where platform differences like this are listed,
> but these are being accumulated for a future document/article, so this has been
> noted.

Why would platform specific behavior/differences not be listed directly in the Javadoc?  This is were developers look when building applications.
Comment 5 Steve Northover CLA 2006-06-15 16:26:26 EDT 
The Javadoc for SWT.FLAT, although not great, does indicate that it is a hint.  The problem with encoding things like this in the Javadoc is that they change between releases of the operating system and theme managers.
Comment 6 Eric Zimmerman CLA 2006-06-15 16:50:31 EDT 
(In reply to comment #5)
> The Javadoc for SWT.FLAT, although not great, does indicate that it is a hint. 
> The problem with encoding things like this in the Javadoc is that they change
> between releases of the operating system and theme managers.
> 

I don't want to hijack this bug with javadoc discussion (even though it somewhat applies to this bug)...I will post future replies about proper placement of platform specific documentation on the platform-swt-dev mailing list.