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why disabled swt link is not grayed out?

Answer 1

A:

did you try setting gray foreground explicitly ?

you can use following helper method:

public static void setEnabled(Link link, boolean enable){
    if(link.isEnabled()!=enable){
        if(enable)
          link.setForeground(null); // resets to system's default color
        else
          link.setForeground(link.getDisplay().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_GRAY));
        link.setEnabled(enable);
    }
}

Santhosh Kumar T 2010-02-27 05:42:08

just tried. this works. but now I need to set color back, and how can I obtain the default color for hyperlinks? :) I don't want to ask control to return it's foregraound color and store it - it would be to complicated solution for such a thing that we supposed to have for free.Probably I can say Eclipse somehow to use "gray" as foreground for disabled hyperlinks?

javapowered 2010-02-27 11:47:22

this looks good, but doesn't work for me. In my eclipse the default color for enabled links is "dark blue", and "light blue" when you hover over. But if I set foreground to "null" then links become black and "light blue" when you hover over.

javapowered 2010-03-04 22:37:48

Answer 2

A:

Just extend Hyperlink and set the default colors. Alternatively you could create a composite delegate and forward the interface if it isn't too big - that's probably preferable.

arcticpenguin 2010-02-27 14:27:28

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