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SWT Gallery Widget

News :

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The Gallery widget is now an official nebula widget : http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/gallery/gallery.php
Gallery now supports groups.

Features

Works with SWT 3.1 and up.
API is similar to Table and Tree widgets
Support standard and virtual modes
User can select one or more images ( mouse click with Control or Shift)
Drop shadows

Screenshots

Download

Files are available on Nebula CVS

Example

Standard :

Gallery g = new Gallery(parent, SWT.V_SCROLL);

DefaultGalleryGroupRenderer gr = new DefaultGalleryGroupRenderer();
DefaultGalleryItemRenderer ir = new DefaultGalleryItemRenderer();
g.setGroupRenderer(gr);
g.setItemRenderer(ir);
		
GalleryItem gi1 = new GalleryItem(g, SWT.None);
gi1.setImage((Image) myImage);

Virtual :

final Gallery gallery = new Gallery(shell, SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.VIRTUAL);

DefaultGalleryGroupRenderer gr = new DefaultGalleryGroupRenderer();
DefaultGalleryItemRenderer ir = new DefaultGalleryItemRenderer();
gallery.setGroupRenderer(gr);
gallery.setItemRenderer(ir);

gallery.addListener(SWT.SetData, new Listener() {

	public void handleEvent(Event event) {
		GalleryItem item = (GalleryItem) event.item;
		int index;
		if (item.getParentItem() != null) {
			index = item.getParentItem().indexOf(item);
		} else {
			index = gallery.indexOf(item);
		}

		item.setImage(image);
		item.setText("Item " + index);
		item.setItemCount(100);
	}

});
gallery.setItemCount(100);

License

EPL

Patches

Feel free to send me your improvements of this widget using eclipse bugzilla or contact me to see how you can help its development.

Notes

Some parts of this widget are inspired from the article "A Basic Image Viewer" by Chengdong Li ( Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky ), March 2004 http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Image-Viewer/Image_viewer.html