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Build Identifier: 20100617-1415 When opening a UI thru org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.createWindowContents(Shell), the call is delegated to org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.createDefaultContents(Shell), which uses a TrimLayout to arrange the contents. If content is empty (no toolbar, coolbar, or anything), the TrimArea will leave a 4 pixel "margin". The problem seems to be caused by org.eclipse.ui.internal.layout.TrimArea.computeWrappedTrim(int), which adds both tile and line spacing even if content is blank. For instance, the line before the last looks like this: // Finally, add enough room to provide spacing between the lines totalMinor += (lines.size() + 1) * LINE_SPACING; Even if lines are empty, it will return 1 * LINE_SPACING. A possible solution could be to do something like this (and similar for TILE_SPACING) if (!lines.isEmpty()) { totalMinor += (lines.size() + 1) * LINE_SPACING; } Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a UI with a standadalone view and no menu or toolbars 2. add a single component to the UI, use a FillLayout to make it fill the entire space 3. set the shell background color to black 4. launch the UI - you will see a black "margin" around the UI (hopefully this is clear enough, otherwise I can try to produce code snippet to illustrate)
Created attachment 182975 [details] Screenshot showing the desired look In this screenshot, the "footer" fills the entire bottom area.
Created attachment 182976 [details] Screenshot showing the unwanted (default) look In this screenshot, there is a 4 pixel white "margin" around the footer.
By running in debug mode, I was able to produce the same result by forcing TrimArea.computeWrappedTrim(int)) to return 0, which appears to be the proper solution if content is empty (as stated above). Since it seems hard to get at the specific method in TrimArea, the way to produce the desired look (as seen in the screenshot above) is to override the method that creates the window content altogether. This works well as long as the windows is completely empty, but doesn't solve the core problem. Workaround is to override org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.createWindowContents(Shell): @Override public void createWindowContents(Shell shell) { shell.setLayout(new FillLayout()); getWindowConfigurer().createPageComposite(shell); }
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