Tag: twitnotes

Setting table row height in SWT

So it appears you can actually set the row height of a SWT table despite me previously saying you couldn’t. The caveat is that it cannot be set on a per row basis. Row height is set using a Listener for SWT.MeasureItem and then setting the height property of the supplied event object as shown below.

// resize the row height using a MeasureItem listener
table.addListener(SWT.MeasureItem, new Listener() {
   public void handleEvent(Event event) {
      // height cannot be per row so simply set
      event.height = 67;
   }
});

If need be you could compute the actual height using the GC.stringExtent(String).y and simply set to the biggest value you encounter.

Information from Custom Drawing Table and Tree Items at Eclipse.org.

TwitNotes – example of multiple submit area providers

As mentioned in the documentation TwitNotes is extensible using extension points. One of the extensions make it possible to contribute so called submit area providers that is functionality that can submit information. The supplied Twitter submit area provider is one example but if you add another the UI is simply augmented with a tabbed folder as shown below where there’s two providers present.

TwitNotes v. 1.0.1 available

TwitNotes v. 1.0.1 is now available from the update site. This release solves the following issues:

  • Text not wrapping on Windows XP (solved using custom PaintListener). An unfortunate side effect is that long posts with long words are being truncated – I’m working on a solution to this.
  • Image disappearing when selecting a row (solved by widening the image column as described here)
  • XML entities not being correctly unescaped that is posts show & etc. (solved using Apache Commons Lang StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(String))

To update go to File/Application/Install and select “Search for updates of the currently installed features” and follow the directions on screen (almost like installing in the first place).

Comments welcome to this post.

TwitNotes – Update on text wrap issue

As reported on the comments to my earlier post there is an issue with the text not wrapping on Windows XP. The good thing is that I have reproduced the issue on Notes 8.0.1 on Windows XP in a VMWare machine so I can fix the issue. No guarantee as to when though I have a couple of conference calls this week… 🙂

If you’re running XP and not having the text wrap issue please let me know by commenting.

TwitNotes update

TwitNotes is ready for distribution and I have the update site all lined up. Only problem holding me back releasing it is an issue I have with conflicting components from my sidebar plug-in and the Lotus Expeditor platform. My plug-in needs ship with Apache Commons HttpClient v. 3.1 and Apache Commons Lang v. 2.3. For some reason my versions of the components wont deploy to Notes 8 since the components conflict with the versions supplied with Lotus Expeditor. The funny thing is that it works perfectly when launching Notes from the Eclipse IDE.

If anyone has any ideas why this might be so please let me know. Maybe a feature patch? Other ideas?