Re: [abbot-users] TableItem Locator?

[Thomas L R. <tl...@us...>]

Rob Heiser 08/23/2004 06:16:27 PM:
>   abbot.tester.swt.WidgetLocator.getBounds() doesn't have a branch
> for TableItem (or TreeItem, from the looks of it). I needed it to,
> so I added code that looks similar to the other branches:

>         if(w instanceof TableItem) {
>             TableItem item = (TableItem)w;
>             Rectangle bounds = item.getBounds(0);
>             Point p = item.getParent().toDisplay(bounds.x, bounds.y);
>             return new Rectangle(p.x, p.y, bounds.width, bounds.height);
>         }

>   Obviously there's a complexity related to TableItems that makes
> this code unfit for some cases. 

Really? It's not obvious to me; The Voices are softly whispering
"beware ... threading ..." but they _always_ do that when I look @
SWT code :-)

> It seems to work for my purposes. What are the complexities that my
> naive implementation is missing?

Dunno, hafta sneak a look (mgmt said "no more abbot until Atlantic is
out the door" so I gotta be sneaky :-)