Time for action – getting in focus
To allow the time zone of the clock widgets to be changed, a drop-down box (known as Combo
) as well as a Button
will be added to the view. The Combo
will be created from a set of ZoneId
instances.
- Create a
timeZones
field in theClockView
class:private Combo timeZones;
- At the end of the
createPartControl
method, add this snippet to create the drop-down list:public void createPartControl(Composite parent) { ... timeZones = new Combo(parent, SWT.DROP_DOWN); timeZones.setVisibleItemCount(5); for (String zone : ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds()) { timeZones.add(zone); } }
- Run the target Eclipse and open the Clock View again; a list of time zone names will be shown in a drop-down:
- It's conventional to set the focus on a particular ...
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